Fiber Optic Installation and Testing
How optical fiber is installed, terminated and certified, followed through Cobalt Line Systems' Austin fiber crew: how fiber guides light, fiber grades and cable construction, laser and glass safety, pulling within tension and bend radius limits, enclosures, splice trays and the TIA-598 color code, connectors and polarity, pre-terminated, splice-on and mechanical terminations, fusion splicing, end face inspection to IEC 61300-3-35, Tier 1 loss testing and Tier 2 OTDR testing, and a capstone campus backbone.
LVT-210 12 lessons · 4 h ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Low Voltage Systems
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Explain how optical fiber guides light by total internal reflection, and use numerical aperture, dBm and dB in simple calculations
- Identify multimode and singlemode fiber grades and cable constructions, and match fiber type and length to an application's reach
- Work safely with fiber: invisible light, glass shards, solvents and live systems, using dark-strand checks and a method of procedure
- Plan and carry out fiber cable pulls within tension and bend radius limits, using pull calculations, breakaway swivels and figure eights
- Install and dress fiber enclosures, splice trays and adapter panels, and identify strands with the TIA-598 color code and splice maps
- Select connectors and polish types, avoid APC and UPC mismatches, and maintain duplex and MPO polarity
- Terminate fiber with pre-terminated assemblies, fusion-spliced pigtails, splice-on and mechanical connectors, and choose among them
- Make, evaluate and protect fusion splices, including cleave quality, splicer estimates and the causes of splice loss
- Inspect, grade and clean end faces with video microscopes to IEC 61300-3-35, using the inspect-clean-inspect routine
- Calculate link loss budgets and perform Tier 1 loss testing with the correct reference method and encircled flux launch
- Perform and interpret Tier 2 OTDR testing, including launch and receive cables, dead zones, bidirectional splice analysis and fault location
- Build, certify and hand over a campus fiber backbone with complete records, test reports and owner acceptance
Course content
12 lessons · 4 h total · final exam
- 1 How optical fiber carries light 22 min · quiz
- 2 Fiber types, modes and cable construction 19 min · quiz
- 3 Fiber safety: light, glass shards and chemicals 19 min · quiz
- 4 Installing fiber cable: pulling, bend radius and pathways 20 min · quiz
- 5 Fiber management: enclosures, panels and splice trays 20 min · quiz
- 6 Connectors, adapters and polarity 20 min · quiz
- 7 Field termination: pre-terminated, splice-on and mechanical connectors 20 min · quiz
- 8 Fusion splicing 20 min · quiz
- 9 Cleaning and inspecting end faces 20 min · quiz
- 10 Loss budgets and power meter testing (Tier 1) 20 min · quiz
- 11 OTDR testing (Tier 2) 21 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: building and certifying a campus backbone 19 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
How optical fiber is installed, terminated and certified, followed through Cobalt Line Systems' Austin fiber crew: how fiber guides light, fiber grades and cable construction, laser and glass safety, pulling within tension and bend radius limits, enclosures, splice trays and the TIA-598 color code, connectors and polarity, pre-terminated, splice-on and mechanical terminations, fusion splicing, end face inspection to IEC 61300-3-35, Tier 1 loss testing and Tier 2 OTDR testing, and a capstone campus backbone.