- Industry: Telecommunications
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Operation that ensures that a failure of equipment, process, or system does not propagate beyond the immediate environs of the failing entity. 2. A control operation or function that prevents improper system functioning or catastrophic degradation in the event of circuit malfunction or operator error.
Industry:Telecommunications
Operation that uses a control discipline for multipoint data communication links in which transmission may be between tributary stations or between the control station and tributary stations.
Industry:Telecommunications
Operation wherein the minimum detectable signal is limited by quantum noise. Synonym quantum-limited operation.
Industry:Telecommunications
Operation wherein the minimum detectable signal is limited by quantum noise. Synonym quantum-limited operation.
Industry:Telecommunications
Optical beating, i.e., the mixing, i.e., heterodyning, of two lightwaves (incoming signal and local oscillator) in a nonlinear device to produce a beat frequency low enough to be further processed by conventional electronic circuitry. Note: Optical mixing is the optical analog of heterodyne reception of radio signals. Synonym optical heterodyning.
Industry:Telecommunications
Optical beating, i.e., the mixing, i.e., heterodyning, of two lightwaves (incoming signal and local oscillator) in a nonlinear device to produce a beat frequency low enough to be further processed by conventional electronic circuitry. Note: Optical mixing is the optical analog of heterodyne reception of radio signals. Synonym optical heterodyning.
Industry:Telecommunications
Optical fiber splicing that uses a capillary tube, of suitable material, to align the mating fibers. Note: The capillary tube has an inside diameter slightly larger than the cladding diameter of the two optical fibers to be spliced. The fibers are inserted, one from either end, to form a butt joint. The capillary tube may contain an index-matching gel, or the fibers may be secured with an adhesive having a refractive index that approximates that of the fibers.
Industry:Telecommunications
Optical signal modulation induced by mechanical means. Note: An example of deleterious mechanically induced modulation is speckle noise created in a multimode fiber by an imperfect splice or imperfectly mated connectors. Mechanical disturbance of the fiber ahead of the joint will introduce changes in the modal structure, resulting in variations of joint loss.
Industry:Telecommunications
Oscillations that occur in the output of systems after a sudden change in the input.
Industry:Telecommunications
Overhead assigned to and transported with the payload until the payload is demultiplexed. It is used for functions that are necessary to transport the payload.
Industry:Telecommunications
