EXFO FTB-7000 OTDR Series for FTB-500 User Manual
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- Certification Information
- 1 Introducing the Optical Time Domain Reflectometer
- 2 Safety Information
- 3 Getting Started with Your OTDR
- 4 Setting Up Your OTDR
- 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
- Saving the Span-Start and Span-End Information
- Selecting the Operation Mode
- Setting Optical Switch Parameters
- Retesting Channels
- Monitoring Fiber in Real-Time Mode
- 7 Testing Fibers in Template Mode
- 8 Customizing the Application
- Selecting the Default File Format
- Enabling or Disabling File Name Confirmation
- Enabling or Disabling Confirmation before Discarding Unnamed Trace
- Displaying or Hiding Pass/Fail Messages
- Selecting the Distance Units
- Customizing the Acquisition Distance Range Values
- Customizing the Acquisition Time Values
- Defining the Number of Digits Displayed after the Decimal Point
- Enabling or Disabling the Beep Emitted After Acquisitions
- Defining OTDR Setups
- Selecting an OTDR Setup
- 9 Analyzing Traces and Events
- Trace Display and Events Table Description
- Event Pane
- Measure Pane
- Trace Info Pane
- Viewing Test Results
- Using Zoom Controls
- Setting Trace Display Parameters
- Customizing the Event Table
- Selecting the Pulse Width Unit
- Selecting a Trace Display Mode
- Displaying or Hiding a Trace
- Clearing Traces from the Display
- Modifying Space Between Traces on the Graph
- Viewing and Modifying Current Trace Settings
- Changing the Loss and Reflectance of Events
- Inserting Events
- Deleting Events
- 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
- Entering Comments
- Opening Trace Files
- Defining a Reference Trace
- 10 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)
- 11 Managing Trace Files
- 12 Creating and Printing Trace Reports
- 13 Using the OTDR as a Light Source or VFL
- 14 Analyzing Bidirectional Traces
- Starting and Exiting the Bidirectional Analysis Utility
- Creating Bidirectional Trace Files
- Opening Existing Bidirectional Trace Files
- Viewing Test Results
- Analyzing the Fiber on a Specific Fiber Span
- Analyzing Bidirectional Traces
- Changing Event Tables
- Viewing and Modifying Current Trace Parameters
- Saving Traces
- Documenting Results
- Creating a Report
- Printing a Report
- 15 Preparing for Automation or Remote Control
- 16 Maintenance
- 17 Troubleshooting
- 18 Warranty
- A Technical Specifications
- B Description of Event Types
- C SCPI Command Reference
- Index