Getting Acquainted; Overview Of Features - Fluke OF-500-01 OptiFiber Technical Reference Handbook

While this manual describes specific operating
procedures for the OptiFiber tester, the fiber test
methods described are provided only as
guidelines. Your test methods may vary.

Overview of Features

The OF-500 OptiFiber ™ Certifying OTDR (hereafter referred
to as the tester) is a hand-held Optical Time Domain
Reflectometer (OTDR) that locates and characterizes
reflective and loss events in multimode and singlemode
fibers. The tester is optimized for use on the shorter fiber
runs typically installed in premises (building and campus)
networks. Typical test ranges are up to 7 km at 1300 nm for
multimode fiber and up to 60 km for singlemode fiber.
Note

Getting Acquainted

The tester offers the following features:
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Automated OTDR trace and event analysis help you
identify and locate faults on multimode (850 nm and
1300 nm; 50 µm and 62.5 µm) and singlemode
(1310 nm and 1550 nm; 9 µm) fiber.
•
Displays OTDR results in summary format, as a table of
events, or as an interpretive OTDR trace. PASS/FAIL
results are based on factory-installed limits or limits you
specify.
•
ChannelMap ™ function provides an intuitive diagram
of the connectors and segment lengths in a channel.
•
FaultMap ™ function provides an intuitive diagram of
connections that might be bad.
•
Optional FiberInspector
fiber endfaces and save the images.
•
Optional modules add visual fault locator
(OFTM-57xx only), power meter, and loss/length test set
functions to the standard OTDR.
Chapter 1
™ Video Probe lets you inspect
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