๐ Fiber Types
This is the core size of singlemode fiber.
What is 9 microns?
This cable is commonly used for industrial installation or harsh, rugged indoor environments.
What is Tight-Buffer Breakout cable?
Singlemode fiber uses ________ jacket color
What is Yellow?
These two components of a Fiber never separate.
What is Core and Cladding?
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
The letters โOMโ stand for this.
What is Optical Multimode?
This type of cable contains a water-blocking gel to protect from moisture.
What is Loose Tube?
OM1 and OM2 have this jacket color.
What is Orange?
This term describes signal loss over distance.
What is Attenuation?
Fiber is immune to this kind of interference
What is Electromagnetic interference (EMI)?
This color fiber is optimized for VCSEL lasers in OM3 or OM4.
What is Aqua?
This cable is commonly used in a patch panel to patch panel.
What is Distribution Cable?
OM5 fiber would have this jacket color.
What is Lime Green?
The term for a small plastic cap that protects a connector endface is called this.
What is Dust cap?
A single fiber strand is often compared to and is thinner than this.
What is a human hair?
These two wavelengths are typically used in multimode fiber
What is 850 nm and 1300 nm?
Aramid yarn, or Kevlar, is used for this purpose in a fiber cable.
What is Pull strength (Strength Member) or strain relief?
_______ color is used for most outdoor-rated PE jackets
What is Black?
This term describes light bouncing inside the core to keep it traveling.
What is Total internal reflection?
This tool fuses two fibers together.
What is a Fusion splicer?
This is the main advantage of singlemode over multimode
What is longer distance, no modal dispersion
This cable type is commonly used for outside plants.
What is loose tube cable?
This fiber type uses an orange jacket and has a 62.5 ฮผm core.
What is OM1/OM2?
This measurement term is used to describe the diameter of fiber.
What is Microns?
True or False: Fiber optics can transmit both analog and digital signals.
True.