The FOL-M-GP Fiber Optic Trainer Kit is a versatile platform designed for hands-on experimentation with both glass and plastic optical fibers. Featuring dual optical sources, detector characterization, optical attenuation studies, and an integrated power measurement setup, it enables practical learning of fiber performance, losses, data transmission, and key communication parameters in real-world fiber links.
Supports Plastic Fiber- Multimode and Glass Fiber - Multimode experimental setup
Allows finding of IV ad IP characteristics of LED
Configurable source modulation by analog and digital signals
Protected taps to measure forward voltage and forward current through LED and Detector
Onboard potentiometer allows fine variation of forward current of the source,hence of the output optical power
Supports detector characterization
660nm wavelength is used for plastic fiber and 850nm Wavelength is used for glassfiber transmission
ST type connector interface for glass fiber link
Connector-less style package for plastic link
Jigs for attenuation, coupling loss and numerical aperture
Supports Plastic Fiber - Multimode and Glass Fiber – Single mode /multimode experimentalsetups
Configurable source modulation by analog and digital signals
Source 1
Type: LASER
Central wavelength : 1310nm
Spectral width : 1nm
Output power : 1.5mW
Receptacle housing : SC
Source 2
Type: Visible LED
Central Wavelength : 660nm
Spectral width : 25nm
Receptacle housing : "Connector-less"style package
Detector 1
Type : InGaAs PIN photodiodeo
Spectral Bandwidth : 1250nm ~ 1600nm
Responsivity : 0.9 A/W @ 10 micro Watts of 1310 nm
Bandwidth : 1.5 GHz
Return loss : 14 dB
Detector 2
Type : Silicon PIN photo transistor
Spectral Bandwidth : 400 nm ~ 1100nm
Max.Photosensitivity Lambda : 850 nm.
Responsively : 0.8 mA/ 10micro Watts VCE= 5 V
Fiber Cable Cable
Type : Glass fiber single & multimode
Core diameter : 9 micrometer and 62.5
Clad diameter : 125 micrometer
Length of fiber : 01 meter each
Type : Plastic optical cable, step index, multimode
Optical Source Characteristics
To plot the electrical and optical characteristics of different light sources.
Numerical Aperture of fiber
To estimate the numerical aperture of given fiber
Fiber Attenuation
To measure the attenuation of given MM /SI fiber.
a) Propagation loss
b) Bending loss.
Optical Detector Characteristics
Responsively
To plot the frequency response of detectors with different values of load resistor
Fiber Bandwidth/Data rate
To estimate the bandwidth of given fiber link.
To test a simple fiber optic link for transmission of analog signal.
To test a simple fiber optic link for transmission of digital signal.
Measurement of bit error rate
