文档介绍：INTRODUCTION?
TO FIBER OPTICS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Brief Introduction ...........................................................2
Advantages of Fiber Optic Systems ...........................3
Optical Transmitters .........................................................5
The Optical Fiber .............................................................8
Launching the Light ...................................................8
Types of Optical Fiber ................................................9
Losses in Optical Fiber ..............................................10
Optical Fiber Bandwidth .............................................11
Fiber Optic Cable Construction ..................................12
Other Types of Fibers .................................................12
Optical Connectors ....................................................13
Optical Splices ...........................................................14
Optical Receivers.............................................................15
Designing a Fiber Optic System ......................................18
System Design Check List ...............................................19
Contact Information....................................................20
Communications Specialties, Inc. 1
A BRIEF INTRODUCTION
ur current “age of technology” is the result of many brilliant in-
Oventions and discoveries, but it is our ability to transmit information, and the
media we use to do it, that is perhaps most responsible for its evolution. Progress-
ing from the copper wire of a century ago to today’s fiber optic cable, our increas-
ing ability to transmit more information, more qui