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Fiber Optic Wiki

Fiber optic transceiver

March 26, 2012

A fiber-optic transceiver is a accessory acclimated to forward and accept optical information. There are a amount of altered apparatus on one of these devices, including a ablaze antecedent and an electrical component. The transceiver has two ends, one that an optical cable plugs into and accession for abutting an electrical device.

What is Ceramic Ferrule?

March 26, 2012

Ferrule is the most important component of Fiber Connectors and Fiber Patch cord. It could be made of different materials, such as plastics, stainless steel, and ceramic (zirconia). Most of the ferrules used in optical connectors are made of ceramic (Zirconia) material due to some of the desirable properties they possess.  Ceramic Ferrule include low insertion loss required for optical transmission, remarkable strength, small elasticity coefficient, easy control of product characteristics, and strong resistance to changes in environmental conditions.

What is Fiber Adapter Family?

March 26, 2012

Fiber Adapters is one of the most commonly used and very necessary product use in the fiber optics network, it is used for connection between various fiber connectors, fiber patchcord, fiber pigtail and fiber optic equipments, it offers the point to point connection the fiber optic network.

What is Hybrid Fiber Adapter ?

March 26, 2012

Hybrid Fiber Adapters (Converting fiber adapter) provide interconnection between two different fiber connector types.  There are two type of Hybrid fiber adapter, including Male-Female hybrid fiber adapter and Female-Female hybrid fiber adapter.

What is Bare Fiber Adapter?

March 26, 2012

Bare fiber adapters are used as the medium to link the bare optical fiber to fiber optic equipment. They have the bare  fiber inside on one side; the other side of the Adapter is a fiber connector that can plug into the equipment.

Fiber Optic Glossary

February 13, 2012

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Absorption
That portion of optical attenuation in optical fiber resulting from the conversion of optical power to heat .Caused by impurities in the fiber such as hydroxyl ions.

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