Nel, MTheron, Bertus2010-07-202010-07-202009-09Nel, M and Theron, B. 2009. Quantifying uncertainty contributions for fibre optic power meter calibrations. Test and Measurement Conference 2009. 14-16 September 2009http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4105Test and Measurement Conference, Gauteng, Misty Hills Country Hotel & Conference Centre, 14-16 September 2009A fibre optic power meter calibration has several uncertainty contributors associated with it. In order to assign a realistic uncertainty to the calibration result it is necessary to realistically estimate the magnitude of each uncertainty contributor. Two contributors that are of interest during a fibre optic power meter calibration are the effect of connector-tightening and the effect of fibre flexing. This paper reports on empirical measurements that we performed to quantify these two uncertainty contributors, the methods we used and the results thereof. It was done only for standard single mode fibre with FC connectors, and using a 1310 nm and a 1550 nm Fabry Perot laser (FP laser)enFibre optic power meterResponsivity calibrationUncertainty of measurementUncertainty contributionsOptical fibre flexingOptical fibre connector tighteningReference patch cordReference connectorConference PresentationNel, M., & Theron, B. (2009). Quantifying uncertainty contributions for fibre optic power meter calibrations. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4105Nel, M, and B Theron. "Quantifying uncertainty contributions for fibre optic power meter calibrations." (2009): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4105Nel M, Theron B, Quantifying uncertainty contributions for fibre optic power meter calibrations; 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4105 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Nel, M AU - Theron, B AB - A fibre optic power meter calibration has several uncertainty contributors associated with it. In order to assign a realistic uncertainty to the calibration result it is necessary to realistically estimate the magnitude of each uncertainty contributor. Two contributors that are of interest during a fibre optic power meter calibration are the effect of connector-tightening and the effect of fibre flexing. This paper reports on empirical measurements that we performed to quantify these two uncertainty contributors, the methods we used and the results thereof. It was done only for standard single mode fibre with FC connectors, and using a 1310 nm and a 1550 nm Fabry Perot laser (FP laser) DA - 2009-09 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Fibre optic power meter KW - Responsivity calibration KW - Uncertainty of measurement KW - Uncertainty contributions KW - Optical fibre flexing KW - Optical fibre connector tightening KW - Reference patch cord KW - Reference connector LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2009 T1 - Quantifying uncertainty contributions for fibre optic power meter calibrations TI - Quantifying uncertainty contributions for fibre optic power meter calibrations UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4105 ER -