EXFO FTB-700 for FTB-1 User Manual
Ftb-700 series
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Certification Information
- 1 Introducing the FTB-700 OTDR
- 2 Safety Information
- 3 Getting Started with Your OTDR
- 4 Preparing Your OTDR for a Test
- 5 Testing Fibers in Auto Mode
- 6 Testing Fibers in Advanced Mode
- Setting the Autorange Acquisition Time
- Setting the IOR, RBS Coefficient, and Helix Factor
- Setting Distance Range, Pulse Width, and Acquisition Time
- Enabling the High-Resolution Feature
- Enabling or Disabling Analysis After Acquisition
- Setting Pass/Fail Thresholds
- Setting a Default Span Start and Span End
- 7 Testing Fibers in Template Mode (optional)
- 8 Testing Fibers in Fault Finder Mode
- Acquiring Traces in Fault Finder Mode
- Naming Fault Finder Files Automatically
- Selecting the Default File Format for the Fault Finder Traces
- Enabling or Disabling the Confirmation of Fault Finder File Name
- Enabling or Disabling the Storage Feature
- Enabling or Disabling the First Connector Check for Fault Finder
- Enabling or Disabling the Touchscreen Keyboard
- Setting Trace Display Parameters
- Selecting the Distance Units
- 9 Customizing Your OTDR
- 10 Analyzing Traces and Events
- Graph View
- Linear View
- Summary Table
- Events Tab
- Measure Tab
- Trace Info. Tab
- Displaying the Graph in Full Screen
- Selecting the Default View
- Automatically Displaying the Event Table after Acquisitions
- Automatically Zooming in on the Fiber Span
- Using Zoom Controls
- Setting Trace Display Parameters
- Customizing the Event Table
- Displaying or Hiding a Trace
- Clearing Traces from the Display
- Viewing and Modifying Current Trace Settings
- Modifying Events
- Inserting Events
- Deleting Events
- Managing Comments
- Changing the Attenuation of Fiber Sections
- Setting the Analysis Detection Thresholds
- Analyzing or Reanalyzing a Trace
- Analyzing the Fiber on a Specific Fiber Span
- Enabling or Disabling the Detection of Reflective Ends of Fiber
- Swapping Traces
- Opening Trace Files
- 11 Analyzing the Results Manually
- Selecting the Attenuation and Loss Values that Will Be Displayed
- Using Markers
- Getting Event Distances and Relative Powers
- Getting Event Loss (Four-Point and Least-Square Approximation)
- Getting Attenuation (Two-Point and Least-Square Approximation)
- Getting Reflectance
- Getting Optical Return Loss (ORL)
- 12 Managing Trace Files from the OTDR Test Application
- 13 Creating and Generating Reports
- 14 Using the OTDR as a Light Source
- 15 Analyzing Traces with the Bidirectional Analysis Application (Optional)
- Starting and Exiting the Bidirectional Analysis Application
- Creating Bidirectional Measurement Files
- Opening Existing Bidirectional Measurement Files
- Displaying Traces and Bidirectional Measurement
- Viewing Results
- Reanalyzing Traces and Regenerating the Bidirectional Measurement
- Modifying the Alignment of Unidirectional Traces
- Using Zoom Controls
- Using Markers to Edit Events
- Inserting Events
- Modifying Events
- Deleting Events
- Changing the Attenuation of Fiber Sections
- Setting General Parameters
- Customizing the Events Table
- Saving the Span-Start and Span-End Information
- Setting Pass/Fail Thresholds
- Modifying Trace Analysis Settings
- Saving Traces
- Exporting Unidirectional Traces from Bidirectional Files
- Adding Information to the Test Results
- Creating Reports
- 16 Maintenance
- 17 Troubleshooting
- 18 Warranty
- A Technical Specifications
- B Description of Event Types
- Index