FIBER OPTIC SPLICING & OTDR TRAINING

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
18 Jan 2026 Jeddah, KSA $ 4,500 Register
14 Jun 2026 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register
25 Oct 2026 Istanbul, Turkey $ 4,500 Register

FIBER OPTIC SPLICING & OTDR TRAINING

Introduction

This is a comprehensive workshop that provides the necessary background to understand the fundamentals of fiber optics systems and their individual components including fibers, 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 fiber 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 fiber 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

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

    • Practical hands-on experience in jointing, splicing and testing fiber optics systems
    • 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 

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 
    • Fibre 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 

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