New Fiber Optic Passive Devices Training DVD

The Light Brigade would like to announce the release of its newest menu-based DVD, Fiber Optic Passive Devices. These purely optical instruments work by guiding, refracting, and reflecting light. Considered a cost-effective alternative to electro-optical components, they have become commonplace and are seeing wide use as components and optical sub-assemblies in communication systems.

This DVD primer focuses on the various passive devices that have been developed for use in fiber optic communication systems. Individual chapters detail the theory, manufacture, and employment of various passive components and optical sub-assemblies, including an in-depth look at the technology and products used in wide, coarse, and dense wavelength division multiplexing. Later chapters discuss the evolution of optical add/drop multiplexing as well as testing and test equipment for passive components. The content includes:

• Optical splitters and couplers.
• Optical filters and gratings.
• Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) components.
• WDM systems.
• Interleavers.
• Dispersion compensators.
• Optical switches.
• Remote optical add/drop multiplexers.
• Design and testing.
  

Special features include a student quiz, with matching instructor version, written in Microsoft Word format to allow for customization for your specific needs. In addition, the DVD features a comprehensive list of acronyms and a glossary of terms.