• In a fiber optic cable, a buffer is one type of component used to encapsulate one or more optical fibers for the purpose of providing such functions as...
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    contribute to its optical waveguide properties. Individual coated fibers (or fibers formed into ribbons or bundles) then have a tough resin buffer layer or core...
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    conventional optical fiber is the part of the fiber that guides the light. It is a cylinder of glass or plastic that runs along the fiber's length. The...
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  • Lysis buffer, in cell biology Metal ion buffer Mineral redox buffer, in geology Buffer (GIS), a HASS zone around a map feature Buffer (optical fiber), a...
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  • An optical ground wire (also known as an OPGW or, in the IEEE standard, an optical fiber composite overhead ground wire) is a type of cable that is used...
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    An optical fiber connector is a device used to link optical fibers, facilitating the efficient transmission of light signals. An optical fiber connector...
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  • telecommunications, an optical buffer is a device that is capable of temporarily storing light. Just as in the case of a regular buffer, it is a storage medium...
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    An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage...
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    In fiber-optic communication, a single-mode optical fiber (SMF), also known as fundamental- or mono-mode, is an optical fiber designed to carry only a...
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    or visible light through an optical fiber. The light is a form of carrier wave that is modulated to carry information. Fiber is preferred over electrical...
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  • Fiber Optic cable termination is the addition of connectors to each optical fiber in a cable. The fibers need to have connectors fitted before they can...
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    A passive optical network (PON) is a fiber-optic telecommunications network that uses only unpowered devices to carry signals, as opposed to electronic...
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    Fiber to the x (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide...
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  • theorem Buckley–Leverett equation Buckling Buckypaper Bud Grace Buffer (optical fiber) Building engineering physics Bulk density Bulk modulus Bulk temperature...
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  • All-dielectric self-supporting cable (category Optical fiber)
    All-dielectric self-supporting (ADSS) cable is a type of optical fiber cable that is strong enough to support itself between structures without using...
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  • all optical form from one end to the other end of the network. The data burst can cut through intermediate nodes, and data buffers such as fiber delay...
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    protocols that transfer multiple digital bit streams synchronously over optical fiber using lasers or highly coherent light from light-emitting diodes (LEDs)...
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    Fiberscope (redirect from Fiber scope)
    A fiberscope is a flexible optical fiber bundle with a lens on one end and an eyepiece or camera on the other. It is used to examine and inspect small...
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    tight-buffered, optical fiber that has an optical connector pre-installed on one end and a length of exposed fiber at the other end. The end of the fiber pigtail...
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  • identification schemes for fibers, buffered fibers, fiber units, and groups of fiber units within outside plant and premises optical fiber cables. This standard...
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    electrical connection, such as diagnostics. An optical network terminal (ONT) is a type of NID used with fiber-to-the-premises applications. The simplest...
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  • Hydrogen darkening (category Fiber optics)
    coatings such as carbon are applied to the fiber, and hydrogen capturing gels are used to buffer the fiber and other proprietary techniques may be used...
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    bigger buffer for raw files and the longer battery life. The D5500 was superseded by the D5600 in late 2016. 24.2MP CMOS sensor with no optical low-pass...
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  • systems, electrical, or nonlinear optical systems, and are used in electronics and fiber optic circuits, as well as some optical computers. A banyan switch is...
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  • Switch Based on Liquid Crystal on ," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, 2006 and the 2006 National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference. ROADMs & Wavelength...
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    interface, fiber-optic circular connector. The connectors covered have a consistent and predictable optical performance using low loss optical fiber cables...
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    commercialize his inventions in optical fiber telecommunications. just as Corning Glass was producing the first commercial fiber optic cable in small quantities...
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    Fanout cable (category Fiber optics)
    breakout cable or fanout cable), is an optical fiber cable containing several jacketed simplex optical fibers packaged together inside an outer jacket...
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    designs using multiple loose tubes. Tight-buffer cable designs do not provide sufficient strain margin and the optical fibre transmission performance is compromised...
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    Transmission line-based telecommunications cable (e.g. twisted-pair, coaxial, and fiber-optic cable) and broadcast (e.g. microwave, satellite, radio, and infrared)...
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