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| What are the two wavelengths used in cable industry? |
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| What are the three components that make up our fiber? |
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| Core, Cladding, and Coating |
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| What is the signal loss for fiber using 1310nm? |
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| What is the signal loss for fiber using 1550nm? |
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| What is used to cut the fiber while splicing? |
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| What are the two ways of splicing fiber? |
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| What are the two ways of fusion splicing? |
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| Profile alignment and LID ( local injection & detection ) |
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| What are the 12 colors used in Fiber? |
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| Blue, Orange, Green, Brown, Slate, White, Red, Black, Yellow, Violet, Rose, Aqua |
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| What are the 5 ways fiber is packaged? |
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| Ribbon, Ribbon Stranded, Unitube, Loose Tube, and Flex Tube |
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| Name the 5 common fiber connectors used? |
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| APC (angle polished), UPC (ultra polished), FC (ferruled), SC (snap connector), and LC (lucent) |
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| Optical Time Domain Reflectometer |
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| What are mechanical splices typically used for? |
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| Emergency (temporary) restoration. |
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| What does LASER stand for? |
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| Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation |
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| What is used to test the presence of light in an un-terminated optical fiber? |
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| The distance between two points of like phase in a wave? |
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| What ANSI standard separates lasers into various classes? |
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| Name the 5 laser classes: |
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| Class 1, Class 2/2A, Class 3A, Class 3B, Class 4 |
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| The method used to lock and mark one end of a line in order to allow someone to safely work on the other end? |
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| Visible light is generated at what wavelengths (range)? |
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| 390nm-780nm (384thz-769thz) |
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| Gigahertz equals how many cycles per second? |
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| How many nanometers in a meter? |
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| The longer the wavelength, the ___ the frequency? |
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| What are the two types of optical fiber? |
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| Single-Mode fiber and Multi-Mode Fiber |
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| What type of fiber is used to transmit cable television and telephone services? |
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| What is the size of the fiber core in diameter> |
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| What is the size of the fiber cladding in diameter? |
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| What is the size of the fiber coating in diameter> |
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| The ratio of the velocity of light of the two mediums of optical glass? |
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| What does EDFA stand for? |
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| Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier |
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| What does YEDFA stand for? |
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| Ytterbium Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier |
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| Links up to ___ miles are possible using EDFA or YEDFA optical amplifiers? |
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| A kilometer equals _____ Feet? |
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| Formula to convert mW to dBm? |
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| The typical loss of an optical connector? |
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| The most commonly used fiber connector type? |
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| What three materials are needed to clean fiber using the "wet method"? |
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| Lint-free wipes, isopropyl alcohol > 90% purity and lint-free swabs |
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| This allows multiple wavelengths above and below a center wavelength to be carried on a single optical fiber? |
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| DWDM (Dense Wave Division Multiplexing) |
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| The distance that cannot be seen by the OTDR because it is too close to the OTDR source? |
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| What is used to compensate for the dead zone on a OTDR? |
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