Yokogawa Adds Product Series for Optical Testing
Yokogawa Test & Measurement is helping to improve optical pulse testing precision and efficiency for the development of high-quality and high-capacity optical communications systems.
Yokogawa Test & Measurement Corporation has released the AQ7286A, AQ7286H, and AQ7286J optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) units and the AQ3550 optical switch box for the AQ7280 OTDR series of high-performance fiber optic testing instruments. Sale of the new products will commence on August 5.
These new products include the AQ7286A, AQ7286H, and AQ7286J OTDR units, which are designed to be paired with an OTDR mainframe to create an AQ7280 modular OTDR, a high-performance testing instrument that is ideal for use in the optical fiber and cable evaluation process.
The other new product is the AQ3550 optical switch box, which enables efficient switching between connections when evaluating fiber-optic cables on the production line.
Through the release of these new products, Yokogawa Test & Measurement is helping to improve optical pulse testing precision and efficiency for the development of high-quality and high-capacity optical communications systems.
Driven by factors such as the widening use of smartphones, expansion of cloud services, and streaming of video, fiber optic communication networks and data centers are being built to handle ever greater volumes of transmitted data, necessitating the development of fiber optic cables that allow for ever greater speed and bandwidth. Progress is being made in the development of homogenous fiber-optic cables for the transmission of fine optical signals over large distances with minimal loss, and in the development of complex high-density fiber-optic cables with several thousand optical fibers inside a single cable.
Yokogawa Test & Measurement’s OTDRs are used to build and maintain fiber-optic communication networks, and their reliability and user-friendliness are held in very high regard by our customers. Leveraging our technologies, we have developed three new OTDR units for the laboratory and production line testing of optical fibers and cables that have been developed based on the latest standards for next-generation communications, and have also developed an optical switch box that streamlines the evaluation of multi-fiber cables.
