PE.fiberoptics fiber test equipment has measured the chromatic dispersion and PMD of a live traffic-carrying transoceanic fiber network. Operating the CHROMOS11-CL-PMD, engineers from the Wokingham site have recently demonstrated the new “In-band” capabilities of this unique portable optical analyzer over a world record distance of 15500 km on a submarine link from the USA to Europe and back to the USA. This evaluation on a link including hundreds of optical amplifiers proved conclusively that the product delivers what customers need most - fast, accurate data on complete end to end networks. Using the CHROMOS11-CL-PMD, automated transoceanic measurements of Dispersion, PMD, Group Delay and Transmitted Optical Power were taken in less than 5 minutes.

The CHROMOS11-CL-PMD uses its specially ruggedized tunable laser sources to measure fiber, dispersion compensators, EDFA’s and DWDM components within the modern optical network architecture.

The CHROMOS11 is part of the family of portable PE.fiberoptics fiber test equipment. Providing improved accuracy in wavelength and dispersion, compatibility with amplified fiber links and direct dispersion measurement over C and/or L bands, the CHROMOS11-CL-PMD enables accurate performance of state of the art 10 and 40Gbit/s DWDM systems to be predicted and optimized.