๐Ÿ” Fiber Types
๐Ÿงต Cable Construction
๐ŸŽจ Color Codes
๐Ÿง  Vocabulary Challenge
๐Ÿ’ก Fiber Facts & Fun
100

This is the core size of singlemode fiber.

What is 9 microns?

100

This cable is commonly used for industrial installation or harsh, rugged indoor environments.

What is Tight-Buffer Breakout cable?

100

Singlemode fiber uses ________ jacket color

What is Yellow?

100

These two components of a Fiber never separate.

What is Core and Cladding?

100

True or False: Fiber optic cables can be hung from a pole, buried underground, and submerged in water? 

True: So long as they in a protected enclosure

200

The letters โ€œOMโ€ stand for this.

What is Optical Multimode?

200

This type of cable contains a water-blocking gel to protect from moisture.

What is Loose Tube?

200

OM1 and OM2 have this jacket color.

What is Orange?

200

This term describes signal loss over distance.

What is Attenuation?

200

Fiber is immune to this kind of interference

What is Electromagnetic interference (EMI)?

300

This color fiber is optimized for VCSEL lasers in OM3 or OM4.

What is Aqua?

300

This cable is commonly used in a patch panel to patch panel. 

What is Distribution Cable?

300

OM5 fiber would have this jacket color.

What is Lime Green?

300

The term for a small plastic cap that protects a connector endface is called this.

What is Dust cap?

300

A single fiber strand is often compared to and is thinner than this.

What is a human hair?

400

These two wavelengths are typically used in multimode fiber

What is 850 nm and 1300 nm?

400

Aramid yarn, or Kevlar, is used for this purpose in a fiber cable.

What is Pull strength (Strength Member) or strain relief?

400

_______ color is used for most outdoor-rated PE jackets

What is Black?

400

This term describes light bouncing inside the core to keep it traveling.

What is Total internal reflection?

400

This tool fuses two fibers together.

What is a Fusion splicer?

500

This is the main advantage of singlemode over multimode

What is longer distance, no modal dispersion

500

This cable type is commonly used for outside plants.

What is loose tube cable?

500

This fiber type uses an orange jacket and has a 62.5 ฮผm core.

What is OM1/OM2?

500

This measurement term is used to describe the diameter of fiber.

What is Microns?

500

True or False: Fiber optics can transmit both analog and digital signals.

True.

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