Viavi 8100 V2 Series User manual

8100 V2 Modules Series
Portable, modular platform
designed for the construction,
validation and maintenance of
optical fiber networks
User Manual

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8100 V2 Modules Series
Portable, modular platform designed
for the construction, validation and
maintenance of optical fiber networks
User Manual

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Table of Contents
About this guide xxix
Purpose and scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx
Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx
Technical assistance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx
Recycling Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxx
Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .xxxi
Chapter 1 Principles of measurement 1
Principle of reflectometry measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Information yielded by the measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Validity of Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Reflectance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Principle of bi-directional measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Principle of the optical power and attenuation measurements . . . . . . . 6
Power measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Attenuation measurements (optical link loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
PMD principle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Method used to measure the PMD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Principle of measurement of Chromatic Dispersion (CD ODM) using
phase shift method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Standards and l0 for different types of fiber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

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Chapter 2 Getting started 13
Unpacking the device - Precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Installing a module in a receptacle and removing it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Inserting a module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Removing a module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Connecting fiber optic cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Inspecting and cleaning connector end faces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Optical connector types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Connecting Fiber optic cable to test port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Optical connectors and interchangeable adapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Adapter types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Switching adapter type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Cleaning the universal connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Display screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Top status bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Mini-trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Signature of the measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Main display zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Soft keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Selection keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Chapter 3 Reflectometry measurements 27
Activating the OTDR function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Selecting the Smart Test function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Principle of the Smart Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Selecting Smart Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Selecting the Expert OTDR function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Principle of the Expert OTDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Selecting Expert OTDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Configuring the reflectometry test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Configuring the unit for Smart Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Selecting the configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Modifying some parameters before the acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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Configuring the test in Expert OTDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Configuring the Acquisition parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Configuring the Alarms parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Configuring the Analysis parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Configuring the Link parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Configuring the File parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Configuration in Test Auto mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Saving OTDR configuration in a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Loading an existing OTDR configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Traffic Detection and connection quality indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Traffic Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Connection Quality indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Performing OTDR acquisitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Acquisition in Real Time mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Principle of Real Time mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Performing an acquisition in Real Time mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Stopping the real time acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Performing a measurement with Smart Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Performing an acquisition with Expert OTDR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Performing an acquisition from Results page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Multi-wavelength acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Actions on trace during acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Results display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Common functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Display of events on the trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Results table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Cursors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Zoom function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Shift function (Expert OTDR only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Display of traces in overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Traces display in double acquisition mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Advanced functions in Expert OTDR mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Automatic measurement and detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Addition of events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Relative measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Modifying types of events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Table notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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Manual measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Measurements of slope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Measurement of ORL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Measurement of Reflectance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Splice measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Memorization of the position of events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Overlay trace function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Overlaying several traces stored in memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Display of traces in overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Adding traces in overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Swapping overlay traces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Changing the traces position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Removing a trace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Quitting the overlay menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Reference Trace function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Using the reference trace function in the Result page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Using the reference trace function in the explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Saving the trace(s) and generating a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Saving results and creating a report from results page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Opening a report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Recalling OTDR files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
SLM (Smart Link Mapper) option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Show the detailed information of one event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Event View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Changing the type of an event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
OptiPulses option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Configuring the OTDR acquisition with OptiPulses mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Results in OptiPulses mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
FTTA-SLM option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Principle of FTTA-SLM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Acceptance Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Troubleshooting Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
Configuring the Reflectometry test for FTTA network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
FTTA setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Alarms parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Link description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
File parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135