The main aim of this subject is to introduce with measurement techniques and measurement methods for optical fibers.

1. Principal terms and definitions
2. Measurement techniques, sources of optical radiation, measurements of optical power
3. Measurement of optical fiber waveguides, condition of excitation, mode filter
4. Measurement of attenuation
5. Measurement with the optical time domain reflectometer
6. Measurement of constructive properties of optical fibers
7. Measurements passive elements
8. Measurement of dispersive properties
9. Measurement of refractive index profile
10. Measurement of transition characteristics
11. Measurement of optical system rise time
12. Measurement of numerical aperture
13. Noise measurement
14. Measurement of non-liner phenomena

1. Recapitulation of essential knowledge from optics and electromagnetic field
2. Measurement of optical fiber attenuation
3. Measurement of numerical aperture and properties of non-ideal connector connection
4. Measurement of microbending and macrobending influence
5. Measurement of optical system rise time
6. Measurement with the optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR)
7. Measurement with wave multiplexes (WDM)
8. Optical fiber laboratory ÚFE
9. Measurement of noises
10. Measurement of optical solitons
11. Measurement of dispersion
12. Construction of optical transition line
13. Test
14. Check of elaborations, an example of complex measurement approaches

[1] Agrawal G. P.: Fiber-Optic Communications Systems, Third Edition., John Wiley & Sons, 2002

An active attendance of laboratory exercises together with elaborated measurements has to be fulfilled to reach the ungraded assessment and passing of the final written test.
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