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Optical Transceiver Testing — SFP, SFP+, 300-pin MSA, Xenpak

Description

Optical Transceiver Test Setup Optical transceivers come in a variety of architectures, data rates, and ranges for different applications. Examples are XFP, SFP (1 Gb Ethernet; 1x, 2x, 4x Fibre Channel), 300-pin MSA (SONET/SDH), Xenpak/Xpak/X2 (10 Gb Ethernet,
10G Fibre Channel), and the emerging SFP+ (8x Fibre Channel, 10GbE LRM).

Useful Links

X2 MSA: www.x2msa.org

300-pin MSA: www.300pinmsa.org

Fibre Channel: www.t11.org

Gigabit Ethernet: www.ieee.org

SFP+ (Draft): ftp://ftp.seagate.com/sff/SFF-8431.PDFJDSU Optical

Recommended Products

BERTScope™ S 12500

BERTScope LTS Lightwave Test Set

BERTScope DCRj Digital Communications Receiver
with Jitter Analysis

BERTScope™ CR 12500A
Clock Recovery Instrument

BERTScope™ Differential ISI Test Board

Comprehensive Optical Stressed Eye and Transmitter Compliance Testing Technical Brief (PDF)

Recommended Accessories

Optical stressed eye generator: JDSU OPTX10
(850, 1300, 1550 nm): www.jdsu.com

See JDSU's OPTX10 Product Datasheet (PDF)

 

JDSU OPTX10 Optical Stressed Eye Generator

Literature

Optical Transmitter Jitter Measurement Basics • APR 2008 *

Product Note: Telecom Jitter Analysis Using the BERTScope and BERTScope DCRJ • JAN 2008 *

Product Note: 10 Gb/s Optical Transmitter Testing • DEC 2006 *

Measurement Note: Using the XFI 'EQ Filter' to Equalize a Channel to Enable Eye
Measurements • FEB 2006

Stressed Eye: "Know what you're testing with" • JAN 2006

Constructing a 10 GbE Optical Stressed Eye • JAN 2006

Constructing a 4x FC Optical Stressed Eye • JAN 2006

High-Speed Digital Testing of XFP MSA Modules • MAR 2004

 
 


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