Fluke Versiv Series Technical Reference Handbook page 350

Versiv Series Cabling Certification Product Family
Technical Reference Handbook
Table 12. Settings for OTDR Tests (continued)
Adjust the pulse width to a wider setting to see farther
Manual
down the fiber or to a narrower setting for better
Settings:
resolution.
Pulse Width
Narrower pulses let you see more detail in and around
reflective events and help you see events that are close
together (hidden events). But narrower pulses reduce the
range of the OTDR and make traces that have more
background noise between events. When you use
narrower pulses, small loss events can possibly be hidden in
the noise on the trace.
Wider pulses increase the backscatter level, which gives a
better signal-to-noise ratio around non-reflective events.
This helps you see smaller loss events and measure their
loss more accurately, but increases the dead zones of
events. Wider pulses can also hide small reflections.
Auto: The tester selects the narrowest pulse that still lets
you see loss events.
The averaging time is the time the tester uses to make
measurements and calculate averages of the
measurements.
Auto: The tester adjusts the test settings to give a good
view of events on the trace while it keeps the test time to a
minimum.
Quick Test: The tester adjusts the test settings to keep the
test time to a minimum. This setting decreases accuracy,
increases dead zones, and can give a trace that shows
fewer details. Use this setting to do a test quickly when it is
not necessary to see small details on the trace.
A Quick Test can possibly take up to 3 minutes if the fiber
length is near the maximum range for the tester for the
selected pulse width.
The Quick Test is not available for PON tests because PON
links usually include splitters and so usually require long
averaging times to get good results.
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