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There are several system measurements which are unique to fiber optic systems, as opposed to system measurements which are common to facilities implemented in other media (e. g., end-to-end bit-error-rate). We define a systems measurement as one which would be made during the installation, acceptance testing, or maintenance of a fiber optic system, as opposed to measurements which might be made in a factory as system components were being fabricated. In the sections below we shall discuss three of these systems measurements: end-to-end fiber loss, time domain reflectometry, and end-to-end bandwidth measurements.
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Personick, S.D. (1985). System Measurements. In: Fiber Optics. Applications of Communications Theory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3478-9_13
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