User’s Manual for Palm Optical Fiber Tester
Shineway Technologies, Inc.
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5. Typical Applications
This section will discuss the use of ShinewayTech
instruments. We hope this would
be beneficial to your operation.
Please read the cautions and notes carefully before carrying out actual measurement.
5.1
Connector Insertion Loss
To measure the insertion loss of a connector, a stabilized laser source and an optical
power meter (with relative measurement function) are needed. Please follow the procedure
described below:
1. I
nitialization:
Connect the SLS series laser source to the OPM series optical power
meter using a suitable optical jumper cable with a length of 6-9 feet (2 to 3 meters) to
measure the actual optical power of stabilized laser source, as shown in Figure17.
Stabilized Laser Source
λ
ShinewayTech
®
uW
dBm
CW
MOD
dBm
AUTO OFF
nm
Optical Power Meter
λ
ShinewayTech
®
dB
dBm
Zero
uW
Ref
Set
dBm
AUTO OFF
nm
On
Off
On
Off
F
IGURE
17.
I
NITIAL CONNECTION OF CONNECTOR INSERSION LOSS TESTING
2.
Check the instrument status
: Ensure that the source is in Continuous Wave (CW)
output mode. Set the optical power to the appropriate wavelength (using the [
λ
]
key) and to
dBm units (using the [
dB/dBm]
key). Note that only under the dBm mode, the reference
power value can be set.
