Chapter Review Questions for
FOA Text Book CORRECT
Match:
1. Minimum recommended installation bend radius
2. Minimum Long term bend radius
3. Plenum rated
4. Self support cable
5. Armored Cable
6. Filled and Blocked Cable
A. Resistance to water damage.
B. OFCP (Optical Fiber Conductive Plenum)
C. Rodent Resistance
D. No less than 20 times the diameter of the Cable
E. Cable Designed for long term use loads
F. No less than 10 times the diameter of the cable - ANSWER 1. D
2. F
3. B
4. E
5. C
6. A
Confining light in a material by surrounding it by another material with lower refractive index is the
phenomenon of _____? - ANSWER Total internal reflection.
Abraham Van Heel, to increase the total internal reflection, covered bare fiber with a transparent
cladding of ____? - ANSWER Lower refractive index.
, The high Loss of early optical fiber was mainly due to ____? - ANSWER Impurities.
_______, using fused silica, made the first low loss (<20dB/Km) single mode optical fiber? - ANSWER
Corning Glass Works
The largest cause of attenuation is_____? - ANSWER Scattering
Optical fiber's bandwidth, or information transmission capacity, is limited by two factors? - ANSWER
Modal dispersion
Chromatic dispersion
Three main areas where fiber is used? - ANSWER Telephony
CATV
Local area networking (LAN)
Match application with the main reason fiber is the choice transitions medium
___LAN
___CATV
___Telecom - ANSWER LAN: Upgradeability
CATV: Reliability
Telecom: High Bandwidth and distance advantages
FTTC Stands for? - ANSWER Fiber to the Curb.
FTTH Stands for? - ANSWER Fiber to the Home
The development of _____ made fiber cost effective for CATV applications? - ANSWER AM analog
systems
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