User`s guide

How to Calculate Reflectance or Insertion Loss for existing Events4 Sample Sessions: Analyzing an
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Use marker A to... 7 Press the UP key to activate marker A.
...mark start of fiber 8 Move the marker to the far left-hand side and press the
D
OWN key to select the start of the fiber
You now see the deadzone from the front-panel
reflection at the start of the fiber.
9 Position the marker so it cuts the trace in the same
vertical position as the backscatter extrapolated back
to 0 m to take into account the loss in the deadzone.
Analyze for 2-point Loss 10 Select [A
NALYSIS] from the popup menu.
11 If there is no tick next to <2-P
T LOSS>, highlight it and
press S
ELECT. Otherwise select <CLOSE ANALYSIS MENU>.
You see the result in the text beneath the trace as
2pt.L.
NOTE For a simpler method of viewing the loss, look at Cum.L.
to A (or Cum.L.to B) in the box beneath the trace.
This gives you the cumulative loss to the current marker.
How to Calculate Reflectance or
Insertion Loss for existing
Events
How to Calculate Reflectance
1 Move the active marker to an Event.
Analyze Reflectance 2 Select the [A
NALYSIS]<ANALYZE REFLECTANCE> menu
option.