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This document discusses optical power loss in decibels (dB) and provides a table converting between dB loss and percentage of power received. It explains that most multimode fiber optic transceivers have a minimum transmission of -10dB and maximum receiver sensitivity of -17dB, giving a standard budget of -7dB loss before the signal cannot be detected. The table shows that at -7dB loss, 20% of the optical power is received. It recommends using an attenuation value between -6dB and -8dB when testing devices to avoid false failures while stressing the device as much as possible without a high failure rate.

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DB Vs

This document discusses optical power loss in decibels (dB) and provides a table converting between dB loss and percentage of power received. It explains that most multimode fiber optic transceivers have a minimum transmission of -10dB and maximum receiver sensitivity of -17dB, giving a standard budget of -7dB loss before the signal cannot be detected. The table shows that at -7dB loss, 20% of the optical power is received. It recommends using an attenuation value between -6dB and -8dB when testing devices to avoid false failures while stressing the device as much as possible without a high failure rate.

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dB vs.

Optical Power Loss


In designing an optical link, the optical link loss budget must be calculated. This reflects the difference of power generated by the transmitter compared to the amount of light the receiver is set to receive. In calculating link loss budgets, first consider the output power of the transmitter. For example, most multimode transceivers have a minimum transmission value of -10dB; maximum receiver sensitivity is set at -17dB. The result is that in a multimode application, with a standard transceiver at 850nm, the dB budget is -7dB. This means that up to 7dB of power can be lost in the cable plant loss and the receiver will still detect an optical signal. The following table shows the percentage of power lost and its corresponding dB value. At -7dB, only 20% of power is received and yet the optical signal is received successfully. A theoretically perfect optical device would have no internal losses and would transmit 100% of the power, thus having 0dB. Using the dB budget determined by the transceiver, determine the attenuation value to be used. In the example given above, there is a dB budget of -7db. Assuming a tolerance of +/-1db, an attention value of between -6dB and -8dB is optimal. But there is the need to eliminate false failures, so an attenuation value of -6dB comes close to maximum stress for the device under test without the fear of incurring a failure rate of 50%. DECIBEL TO POWER CONVERSIONS Power Out as a dB % of Power Lost % of Power In .001 99.98% .02% .01 99.8% .22% .05 99% 1% .1 98% 2% .2 95.5% 4.5% .3 93% 7% .4 91% 9% .5 89% 11% .6 87% 13% .7 85% 15% .8 83% 17% .9 81% 19% 1 79% 21% 2 63% 37% 3 50% 50% 4 40% 60% 5 32% 68% 6 25% 75% 7 20% 80%

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 25 30 40 50

16% 12% 10% 8% 6.3% 5% 4% 3.2% 2.5% 2% 1.6% 1.3% 1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.01% 0.001%

84% 88% 90% 92% 93.7% 95% 96% 96.8% 97.5% 98% 98.4% 98.7% 99% 99.7% 99.9% 99.99% 99.999%

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