basics (Mayte) Flashcards
optical power
How low is the optical fibre attenuation?
Typical singlemode fibres halve the signal power every ___km
Typical ADSL copper wire lines halve the signal power every 250m at 1MHz carrier frequency.
what is the definition of poroelasticity
what’s the difference between temperature accuracy and resolution
what are the 2 types of refractive index profiles
Light is confined inside the optical fibre thanks to _______
Knowing the s______ one can map the temperature distribution to the fibre distance
what is modal dispersion
what are the most common materials used in fiber optics
what is pulse width
•The temperature resolution degrades _____ over distance. This is caused by the _________.
what is the equation of NA
describe the refractive index profile for single mode and multimode fibers
what is IOR
optical index of refraction
What is “V number”
what are the advantages of using graded-index fiber versus single-index fiber
what is Modal birefringence
what are the advantages to multimode fiber
what is a multiplexer