Digital Directional Inline Optical Power Monitor/Smart Patchcord
Features
- Low insertion loss
- Continuous fiber. No interruptions to optical path
- Display units are interchangeable
- Wide dynamic range and High power handling
- Polarization maintaining (PM) fiber versions available
- Rugged and compact design
- Long battery life and Automatic shut off
- USB interface with OPM-800 version
- Optional Bluetooth with OPM-800
- Optional RS-232 interface and Analog output with OPM-200
Applications
- Optical power control devices
- Channel balancing for WDM systems
- Dynamic optical amplifier gain monitoring
- Power monitoring
- Network monitoring
- Real time in-line test and measurement
- Network installation
- Fiber optic sensor
Product Description
Using a new, patented process, OZ Optics, as part of its new series of inline optical power monitors and tap couplers, now offers a digital inline optical power monitor (for more details about OEM optical power monitors, see the "Directional Fiber Optic Power Monitors (Taps/Photodiodes)" data sheet http://www.ozoptics.com/ALLNEW_PDF/DTS0042.pdf). Based on a groundbreaking new fabrication process, these all-fiber taps and monitors provide a way to easily measure the average signal intensity through an optical fiber via tapped light channeled into a built-in photodiode, without interrupting the traffic. The photodiode produces a signal proportional to the optical power traveling through the fiber with high directivity.
The OPM-800/200 product integrates a novel inline optical tap with a low noise InGaAs detector in combination with a high dynamic range logarithmic amplifier. The built-in microcontroller processes and displays the power transmitted through the selected fiber channel on an LCD display.
The optical tap modules and display units are independently calibrated, so any display unit can be plugged into any tap module and the measured power will be automatically calibrated. A low voltage circuitry design ensures a long lifetime for the built-in battery.
The OPM-800/200 is ideal for network monitoring, out of specification alarms, and/or DWDM systems for real time monitoring and feedback. Our inline taps are highly directional and ideal for monitoring traffic traveling in one direction only. It may also be used for measuring return losses instead of transmitted power.