Optical Fibre System

Optical Fibre System

OFS IV

The OFS IV is designed to provide comprehensive training to students and all levels of scientific and technical personnel on fibre optic devices and digital communication systems.

The laboratory spans fibre optics and related topics, including:
• Fibre optic device characteristics
• Principles of fibre optics and digital communications
• Fibre optic equipment
• Digital and analog fibre optic links
The OFS IV System can be used for demonstration, training,
and experimentation, and can form the basis for student and
research projects and prototypes.

For full details of OFS IVi and OFS IVi plus options please see OFS IV datasheet.

• Features

  • Demonstration & Measurement of multimode fibre characteristics – Bending Losses, Attenuation, Pulse Broadening, Numerical Aperture, Clad mode stripping study.
  • Individual LED, LASER, PD and APD Modules for device characteristics study. The characteristics modules cover forward, reverse & zero bias, leakage characteristics.
  • Experimental OTDR: Integrate essential blocks of an OTDR and understand its principles of operation.
  • Learn how to use an OTDR with fabricated fibre events
  • Plastic and glass fibre links - for experimentation and as interface modules for other digital circuitry.
  • Light Source with variable optical power output, continuous wave, external modulation, internal word and PRBS generation
  • Power Meter calibrated at 650, 850 & 1300 &1550nm
  • Specially designed component-insertion PCBs for link construction – for repeated use by students
  • Comprehensive lab manuals for individual modules. The manuals cover the theory and guide students through a series of experiments
  • Optional Connectorisation and Splicing Kits – to provide students with hands-on experience in connectorisation and splicing of glass fibre
  • Optional range of LEDs, detectors, fibres, connectors, adaptors & receptacles – for custom-development of links, and for study of fibre optic devices and fibre-handling
  • Optional Single Mode Fiber Characteristics Study – Modes Observation, Normalized Frequency (V-number) calculation, Mode Field Diameter & NA Measurement.

• Subject Area

  • Multimode Plastic Fibre Characteristics
  • Multimode Glass Fibre Characteristics
  • Laser Diode Module
  • Avalanche Photodiode Module
  • LED Module
  • PIN Photodiode Module
  • OTDR  and Fibre Event Module
  • Digital Communications Concepts
  • Fibre Optic Link Design
  • Analysis for Analogue Digital systems