Optical Fiber & Cable

• Determining Fiber Size
• Fiber Dispersion
• Fiber Nonlinearities
• Handling Fragile Optical Fiber and Fiber Pigtail Assemblies
• Types of Optical Fiber

Fiber Optic Connectors

• Fiber Optic Connectors
• Connector Loss Test Measurements

Fiber Optic Light Emitters & Detectors

• Light-emitting Diode (LED)
• Laser Diode (LD)
• Laser Backreflection - The Bane of Good Performance
• Fiber Optic Detectors

Transmitters, Receivers, & Transceivers

• Fiber Optic Troubleshooting: Problems and Comments
• Parts of a Fiber Optic Link

Couplers, Splitters, Switches, & WDM

• Couplers & Splitters
• Switches
• WDM
• CWDM
• DWDM

Optical Amplifiers & External Modulators

• Optical Amplifiers
• External Modulators