Short Courses
NEW! SC314 Hands-on Fiber Characterization for the Engineering of Long Haul and Metro Deployments
Tuesday, February 26, 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Danny Peterson¹, Joachim Peerlings²; ¹Verizon Business, USA, ²Agilent Technologies, Germany
Level: Advanced Beginner (basic understanding of topic is necessary to follow course material)
Course Description
In this hands-on course you will measure all of the necessary fiber parameters for qualifying fibers for a specified bit rate. The course begins with a review of the basics of loss measurements, reflectance, chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion. Bit-rate dependent limits will be calculated for each parameter for fiber qualification purposes. Descriptions of the course equipment and setups will follow. The participants then divide into small groups and rotate among four lab stations. In Lab 1, participants will measure fiber loss and optical return loss. Equipment for this lab includes a power meter and an optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR). Joachim Peerlings and Daniel Peterson are the instructors. In Lab 2, participants will measure the polarization mode dispersion (PMD) of transmission paths with combinations of high-PMD fibers. The measurement methods used in this lab include Interferometry and Jones Matrix Eigenanalysis (JME). Pros and cons of each method will be compared and discussed. Joachim Peerlings is the instructor. In Lab 3, participants will measure the chromatic dispersion using two different measurement techniques. The first is the time-of-flight method and the second is the phase-shift method. Results will be compared between both methods. Pros and cons of each will be discussed. Daniel Peterson is the instructor. The course will conclude with a discussion of data results.
Benefits and Learning Objectives
This course should enable you to:
- Learn about transmission limits as a function of bit rate and application.
- Gain the knowledge to make decisions on when specific fiber testing is necessary dependent on the application.
- Measure polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) using Interferometric and JME methods.
- Measure chromatic dispersion (CD) using both time-of-flight (TOF) and phase-shift methods, and discuss CD compensation in mixed-fiber type mesh environments.
- Discuss the effect of PMD and chromatic dispersion on high-speed digital signals.
- Discuss the outage probability in optical fiber transmission systems due to PMD-induced degradation.
- Take optical time-domain reflectometry (OTDR) for loss and splice characterization.
- Describe the system-level effects of polarization-related impairments on long-haul optical transmission.
Intended Audience
This course is intended for engineers, technicians and managers involved with optical fiber, components or systems including those that operate at or above 10Gb/s.
About the Instructors
Daniel Peterson is a distinguished engineer in global transport engineering at Verizon Business. He is an internal advisor on new system technologies for optical transport and is responsible for specifying new optical fiber and characterization of older fiber for new technology in Verizon Business's network. Peterson is also an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Dallas in the electrical engineering department, where he mentors graduate students. He received a B.S.E.E. and an M.S. in physics from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and he earned an M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a senior member of the IEEE. Joachim Peerlings is the business development manager responsible for the worldwide business development group for Agilent Technologies’ installation and maintenance products. He was the product manager for Agilent’s optical fiber characterization platform. He received a Dipl-Ing in electrical engineering at Duisburg University of Technology and a Ph.D. in optics at Darmstadt University of Technology. He has authored more than 20 journal papers and holds various patents in chromatic dispersion test and loss test methodologies.