Fiber Optic Reference Guide: A Practical Guide to Communications Technology, Third Edition
This guide is an ideal primer for newcomers to the fiber optics industry as well as a useful reference guide for seasoned fiber optics veterans.
TABLE OF CONTENTS Fiber Optic Reference Guide: A Practical Guide to Communications Technology, Third Edition
F
- F
- Abbreviation for Fahrenheit. Measure of temperature where pure water freezes at 32 and boils at 212 .
- Failure Rate
- The number of failures of a device per unit of time.
- Fall Time
- Also called turn-off time. The time required for the trailing edge of a pulse to fall from 90% to 10% of its amplitude; the time required for a component to produce such a result. Typically measured between the 80% and 20% points or alternately the 90% and 10% points.
- FAR
- Abbreviation for Federal Acquisition Regulation. The guidelines by which the U.S. government purchases goods and services. Also the criteria that must be met by the vendor in order to considered as a source for goods and services purchased by the U.S. government.
- Faraday Effect
- A phenomenon that causes some materials to rotate the polarization of light in the presence of a magnetic field parallel to the direction of propagation. Also called magneto-optic effect.
- Far-end Crosstalk
-
See Wavelength Isolation.
- FBG
- Abbreviation for fiber Bragg gratings.
See also Bragg Grating.
- FC
- A threaded optical connector that originated in Japan. Good for single-mode or multimode fiber and applications requiring low backreflection.
- FCC
- Abbreviation for Federal Communications Commission.
- FC/PC
- See FC. A special curved polish on the connector for very low backreflection.
- FCS
- Abbreviation for frame check sequence. An error-detection scheme that (a) uses parity bits generated by polynomial encoding of digital signals, (b) appends those parity bits to the digital signal, and (c) uses decoding algorithms that detect errors in...
Copyright Force, Incorporated 2002 under license agreement with Books24x7
