Measuring attenuation in a fiber-optic cable is a vital ingredient to obtaining the maximum performance from a system designs. But, for designers, just starting to work in the fiber-optic design space ...

In a previous Broadcast Engineering article (“Understanding blocking capacitor effects,” August 2011), I mentioned that one of the first tasks in my broadcast engineer career was to work on optical-to ...

As fiber optic cabling becomes an increasingly important aspect of local area network (LAN) communications infrastructures LAN installers have to be well schooled in the fundamentals of terminating ...

There are numerous types of plugs and sockets to connect optical fibers, using threaded, bayonet, push-pull and snap-lock connections. The first fiber-optic connector to be standardized was SMA, which ...

Fiber-optic connector manufacturers are shifting focus to accommodate complex networks with greater fiber density and higher transmission speeds. While these components vendors do not plan to abandon ...