Description : Developed an optical fiber with losses less that 2 dB/km ∙ A. Kao and Bockham ∙ B. Maiman, Kao and Bockham ∙ C. Maiman and Schawlow ∙ D. Kapron, Keck and Maurer
Last Answer : ∙ A. Kao and Bockham
Description : Approximately what is the frequency limit of the optical fiber?
Last Answer : 40 GHz
Description : _______ is a standard developed by ANSI for fiber-optic networks.
Last Answer : SONET
Description : Optical power is sometimes called ____
Last Answer : Radiant flux
Description : The minimum optical power a light detector can receive and still produce a usable electrical output signal.
Last Answer : light sensitivity
Description : The scientist who built the first optical maser.
Last Answer : Theodore Maiman
Description : LEO satellites are normally below an altitude of ________ km
Last Answer : 2000
Description : MEO satellites are located at altitudes between km.
Last Answer : 5000 and 15000
Description : It is caused by valence electrons in the silica material from which the fiber are manufactured.
Last Answer : ultraviolet absorption
Description : It is analogous to power dissipation to copper cables, impurities in the fiber absorb the light and covert it to heaT
Last Answer : absorption loss
Description : The maximum angle in which external light rays may strike the air/glass interface and still propagate down the fiber.
Last Answer : Acceptance cone half-angle
Description : What phenomenon will result if the glass fiber is exposed to long periods of high humidity?
Last Answer : stress corrosion
Description : A popular light wavelength fiber-optic cable is
Last Answer : 1.3 micrometer
Description : A single fiber can handle as many voice channels as.
Last Answer : a 1500-pair cable The term power budgeting refers to: Ans. the total power available minus the attenuation losses
Description : Which type of fiber-optic cable is the most widely used?
Last Answer : multimode step-index
Description : Which type of fiber-optic cable has the least modal dispersion?
Last Answer : single-mode step index
Description : These bends are caused by excessive pressure and tension and generally occur while fiber are bent during handling or installation.
Last Answer : constant-radius bending
Description : They were granted patents for scanning and transmitting television images through uncoated fiber cables
Last Answer : Baird and Hansel
Description : They proposed a new communication medium using cladded fiber cables.
Last Answer : Kao and Bockham
Description : He coined the term “fiber optics” in 1956.
Last Answer : Kapany
Description : For a single mode optical cable with 0.25 dB/km loss, determine the optical power 100 km from a 0.1-mW light source. ∙ A. -45 dBm ∙ B. -15 dBm ∙ C. -35 dBm
Last Answer : ∙ C. -35 dBm
Description : What is the insertion loss of connector type splices for a single mode optical fiber? A. 0.51 dB B. 0.49 dB C. 0.31 dB D. 0.38 db
Last Answer : D. 0.38 db
Description : A fiber-optic cable has a loss of 15 dB/km. The attenuation in a cable 1000 ft. long is ∙ A. 4.57 dB ∙ B. 9.3 dB ∙ C. 24 dB ∙ D. 49.2 dB
Last Answer : A. 4.57 dB
Description : . A fiber-optic cable has a loss of 15 dB/km. The attenuation in a cable, 100 ft long is ∙ a. 4.57 dB ∙ b. 9.3 dB ∙ c. 24 dB ∙ d. 49.2 dB
Last Answer : ∙ a. 4.57 dB
Description : The loss in single-mode fiber-optic cable due to the glass is about: a. 40 dB per km b. 4 db per km c. 0.4 dB per km d. zero loss
Last Answer : c. 0.4 dB per km
Description : For a 300-m optical fiber cable with a bandwidth distance product of 600 MHz-km, determine the bandwidth. ∙ A. 5 GHz ∙ B. 1 GHz ∙ C. 2 GHz
Last Answer : C. 2 GHz
Description : The result whenever the sampling rate is less than twice the highest audio frequency.
Last Answer : alias
Description : An optical fiber cable laid underground has developed a discontinuity at a distance d from the source end. The fault can be located using the instrument (a) Optical spectrum Analyzer (OSA) (b) Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) (c) Optical Power Meter (OPM) (d) Laser Diffractometer (LD)
Last Answer : An optical fiber cable laid underground has developed a discontinuity at a distance d from the source end. The fault can be located using the instrument Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR)
Description : Scattering losses are caused by the interaction of light with density fluctuations within a fiber. What are the two scattering mechanisms called when the size of the density fluctuations is (a) greater than and (b) less than one-tenth of the operating wavelength?
Last Answer : . (a) Mie scattering; (b) Rayleigh scattering.
Description : The magnetic field of an antenna is perpendicular to the earth. The antenna’s polarization ___
Last Answer : is horizontal
Description : It is the ratio of the power density radiated in a particular direction to the power density radiated to the same point by a reference antenna, assuming both antennas are radiating the same amount of power
Last Answer : directive gain
Description : The property of interchangeability for the transmitting and receiving operations is known as ____
Last Answer : reciprocity
Description : The fields surrounding the antenna do not collapse their energy back into the antenna but rather radiate it out in space
Last Answer : radiation field
Description : It is the ratio of the radiated to the reflected energy:
Last Answer : Radiation efficiency
Description : It is the resistance that, if it replaced the antenna, would dissipate exactly the same amount of power that the antenna radiates
Last Answer : . Radiation resistance
Description : Plots of field strength or power density with respect to the value at a reference point.
Last Answer : relative radiation pattern
Description : The radiation pattern plotted in terms of electric field strength or power density
Last Answer : absolute radiation pattern
Description : The line bisecting the major lobe, or pointing from the center of the antenna in the direction of maximum radiation is called _____
Last Answer : line of shoot
Description : A special type of transmission line that consist of conducting metallic tube through which high frequency electromagnetic energy is propagated
Last Answer : waveguide
Description : If energy is applied at the geometrical center of antenna, the antenna is said to be ___
Last Answer : center-fed
Description : The radiation pattern of collinear and a broadside antenna is __
Last Answer : bidirectional
Description : Hertz antenna are predominantly used with frequencies above
Last Answer : 2MHz
Description : The point on the antenna where the transmission line is connected is called _____
Last Answer : feedpoint
Description : The discone antenna is
Last Answer : useful as a UHF receiving antenna
Description : It is the same with directive gain except that the total power fed to the antenna is used and the antenna efficiency is taken into account.
Last Answer : power gain
Description : ____ is a process-to-process protocol that adds only port addresses, checksum error control, and length information to the data from the upper layer.
Last Answer : UDP
Description : ______ are special-interest groups that quickly test, evaluate, and standardize new technologies
Last Answer : Forums
Description : _______ refers to the structure or format of the data, meaning the order in which they are presented.
Last Answer : Semantics
Description : ________ defines how a particular pattern to be interpreted, and what action is to be taken based on that interpretation.
Last Answer : syntax
Description : The effect of a large magnitude of the numerical aperture.
Last Answer : The amount of external light the fiber will accept is greater