Computer Controlled Automatic Test Facility For Fiber Optic Transmission Systems

G. W. Goddard; I. D. Jemczyk; D. R. Mondor

doi:10.1117/12.934013

22 March 1983 Computer Controlled Automatic Test Facility For Fiber Optic Transmission Systems

G. W. Goddard, I. D. Jemczyk, D. R. Mondor

Proceedings Volume 0355, Fiber Optics: Short-Haul and Long-Haul Measurements and Applications I; (1983) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934013
Event: 26th Annual Technical Symposium, 1982, San Diego, United States

Abstract

A computer controlled automated test facility has been developed by Bell-Northern Research for the laboratory evaluation of fiber-optic digital transmission equipment over a range of environmental, electrical and optical stress conditions. The system, named Fiber Optic System Test (FROST), is currently used to verify the design integrity and performance of short wavelength (850 nm) fiber-optic transmission equipment operating at the DS-2 (6.312 Mb/s) and DS-3 (44.736 Mb/s) rates in the digital hierarchy. It can also test equip-ment operating at the DS-1 (1.544 Mb/s) rate. This paper presents the basic system design, describes the implementation and outlines the capabilities of the system. The automated test system has provided data on the equipment being tested which supplemented and expanded information obtained from system trials carried out under field conditions. It permits the rapid verification of improvements in equipment design and enables tests to be carried out on several systems simultaneously, which would be time consuming and expensive if undertaken using manual control. The effectiveness of the test program using the FROST facility has led to the system being enhanced to accommodate long wavelength fiber-optic digital transmission systems. It also has potential applications as a Computer Aided Manufacturing tool.

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G. W. Goddard, I. D. Jemczyk, and D. R. Mondor "Computer Controlled Automatic Test Facility For Fiber Optic Transmission Systems", Proc. SPIE 0355, Fiber Optics: Short-Haul and Long-Haul Measurements and Applications I, (22 March 1983); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.934013

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