The workshop places significant emphasis on the practical techniques of components installations and system design. Attendees will have the opportunity to get hands-on experience with mechanical and fusion splicing and with fitting the popular industrial fiber connectors. Furthermore, participants will practice using various fiber optics test equipments such as optical sources and power meters. The workshop is a practical, hands-on one enabling participants to work through practical exercises which reinforces the concepts discussed during the workshop.

      At the end of this practical workshop, participants would have:

• Practical hands-on experience in jointing, splicing and testing fiber optics systems
• A solid knowledge of fiber optics communications systems
• State of the art fiber optics technology and installations practices
• Correct procedures for cable installations and termination
• How to design and install your own fully operational fiber optics systems
• New approaches to troubleshooting including how to use an OTDR

Instrumentation and control engineers and technicians, Telecommunications engineers and technicians, Maintenance engineers and technicians, process control engineer, project engineers, Electrical engineers, consulting engineers, systems engineers, project managers, electricians.

This interactive Training will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas and will include:

• Lectures
• Workshop & Work Presentation
• Case Studies and Practical Exercise
• Videos and General Discussions

      INTRODUCTION TO FIBRE OPTICS SYSTEMS

• Introduction
• Workshop outline
• Historical background to fiber optics
• Comparison of fiber optics and copper systems
• Data communications
• Communications channel
• Transmission modes
• Electromagnetic spectrum
• Revisiting copper

Other types of fibers

• Fundamentals principles of operations
• Light transmission nature of glass
• Numerical aperture
• Model propagation in fiber
• Multimode/ single mode/step index/ graded index
• Bandwidth of fibers
• Modal and chromatic dispersion
• Absorption/scatter/ bending/ radiation/mismatches
• Other types of fibers

Construction of Fiber optics cables

• Cable objective, Tensile ratings, structural elements & Strengthening members
• Housing- loose tube/ slotted core/ tight buffers
• Sheaths and moisture barriers
• Classes of cables- aerial/ underground/ subaqueous/ indoor

Connecting fiber

• Optical connection issues
• Fiber end preparation
• Splicing fibers- fusion/mechanical
• Connectors & Optical couplers

Optical drivers and detectors

• Light emitting diodes & Lasers
• Transmitters modulus
• Safety considerations
• PIN photodiodes & Receiver modules
• Optical amplifiers
• installing fiber optics cables
• Preparation- site survey and design
• Installation rules and procedures
• Bending radius, cable tension/ cable reels
• Cable trays/ conduits/ lubricants
• Indoor cable installation
• Outdoor cable installation/ environmental conditions
• Splicing trays/ organizers/ termination
• Cabinets/ patch panels/ distribution panels/ breakout boxes
• Practical sessions

 Fiber optics system design

• Initial design considerations
• Future capacity/ reliability/ operating wavelength
• Repeaters and amplifiers
• Design loss calculations / link loss budgets
• Design bandwidth calculations
• Testing fiber optics systems
• Concepts of optical measurements
• Continuity testing
• Insertion loss testing
• Optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR)
• Bit Error Rate (BER) testing
• Eye diagram
• Laboratory fiber tests
• Practical Sessions (a complete day)

Technologies that use optical fibers

• SDH
• WDM
• New trends in fiber optics systems and components

A RECTUS attendance certificate will be awarded to all participants who complete at least 80% of the total course duration.