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 ...

I recall a statement from one Fiber optic tutorial. It said, “Never, never, NEVER take a new connector in the field until you have installed enough of them in the office that you can put them on in ...