Fiber Optic Splicing and OTDR
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | ||
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Fiber Optic Splicing and OTDR | 07 Dec 2025 | 11 Dec 2025 | Live-Online | $ 2,500 | Register |

Fiber Optic Splicing and OTDR
Start Date | End Date | Venue | Fees (US $) | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Fiber Optic Splicing and OTDR | 07 Dec 2025 | 11 Dec 2025 | Live-Online | $ 2,500 |
Introduction
This is a comprehensive workshop that provides the necessary background to understand the fundamentals of fibre optics systems and their individual components including fibres, cable construction, connectors, splices and optical sources and detectors. Participants will use this knowledge to develop the required techniques for design, installations and maintenance of fibre optics systems. 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 fibre connectors. Furthermore, participants will practice using various fiber optics test equipment 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.
Objectives
- Practical hands-on experience in jointing, splicing and testing fibre optics systems
- A solid knowledge of fibre optics communications systems
- State of the art fibre optics technology and installations practices
- Correct procedures for cable installations and termination
- How to design and install your own fully operational fibre optics systems
- New approaches to troubleshooting including how to use an OTDR
At the end of this practical workshop, participants would have:
Training Methodology
This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.
Who Should Attend?
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.
Course Outline
Introduction to Fiber Optics Systems
- Introduction
- Workshop outline
- Historical background to fibre optics
- Comparison of fibre optics and copper systems
- Data communications
- Communications channel
- Transmission modes
- Electromagnetic spectrum
- Revisiting copper
Other types of fibres
- Fundamentals principles of operations
- Light transmission nature of glass
- Numerical aperture
- Model propagation in fibre
- Multimode/ single mode/step index/ graded index
- Bandwidth of fibres
- Modal and chromatic dispersion
- Absorption/scatter/ bending/ radiation/mismatches
- Other types of fibres
- Construction of Fibre optics cables
- Cable objective, Tensile ratings, structural elements & Strengthening members
- Housing- loose tube/ slotted core/ tight buffers
- Classes of cables- aerial/ underground/ subaqueous/ indoor
- Connecting fiber
- Optical connection issues
- Fiber end preparation
- Splicing fibres- fusion/mechanical
- Connectors & Optical couplers
- Optical drivers and detectors
- Light emitting diodes & Lasers
- Transmitters modulus
- Safety considerations
- PIN photodiodes & Receiver modules
- Optical amplifiers
- Installing fibre optic 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
- Fibre optics system design
- Initial design considerations
- Future capacity/ reliability/ operating wavelength
- Repeaters and amplifiers
- Design loss calculations / link loss budgets
- Testing fibre optics systems
- Concepts of optical measurements
- Continuity testing
- Optical time domain reflectometry (OTDR)
- Bit Error Rate (BER) testing
- New trends in fibre optics systems and components