Handbook for Sound Engineers

Index 1721

microbend loss 459
microlensed LED 463
monochromatic light 465, 481
multimode distortion 482
multimode fiber 482
multimode fiber optic cable
1502
multimode graded index fiber
456
noise 468
numerical aperture 460, 482
optical fiber class 482
optical fiber loss 458
Optical Time Domain Reflecto-
meter 462
Optical Time Domain Reflecto-
meter (OTDR) 482
optoelectronic 482
optoelectronic integrated circuits
(OEIC) 482
OTDR 462
particle of light 453
passive optical interconnections
470
performance 456
photodiode 482
Photophone 451
PIN photodiode 467, 482
PIN-FET receiver 482
Plank’s Law 453
plastic optical fiber (POF) 482
population inversion 465
positive-intrinsic-negative de-
tector PIN 454
quantum efficiency 468
Rayleigh scattering 459, 483
receiver 483
sensitivity 483
specifications 476
reflection 454, 483
refraction 454, 483
refractive index 455, 483
repeaters 469, 483
scattering 459
signal loss 458
single mode fiber 456, 483
single optical fiber 454
single-mode fiber cable 1502
Snell’s Law 455
splice 474–475, 477, 483

splice loss 460

spontaneous emission 483

ST connector 483

substrate 481

superluminescent diodes (SLD)

466, 483

surface emitting LED 463

system specifications 475

thermal noise 468

tight buffer fiber jackets 457

transceivers 469

transmission Loss 483

transmitter 483

specifications 476

transmitter/receiver modules

469

types of fiber 456

UniCam Connector System tool

474

vertical cavity surface emitting

laser (VCSEL) 466, 483

wavelength 452, 464, 466,

482

wavelength division multiplex-

ing (WDM) 484

Fiber specifications

fiber optics 476

Fibrlok splice

fiber optics 475

Field distortion

assistive listening systems

1548

Field effect transistor

transistors 326

Field effect transistors

amplifier 718

Field Programmable Gate Array

(FPGA)

consoles 976

Field strength

assistive listening systems

1547

Field-effect transistor attenuator

779

Field-effect transistors

consoles 851

Filament

tubes 311

Fill factor

display technologies 1580

Filter

active filter 710–711

EMI filter 724

Filter gain

consoles 888

Filter quantization distortion

consoles 967

Filter slopes

loudspeakers 623

Filtering

comb 1432

Filters

bandpass 884

Butterworth

virtual systems 1449

filter gain 888

FIR 963, 1454

IIR filters 966

interpolation 958

power supplies 674

reconstruction 958

transversal 963

Filters and equalizers

active 793

adaptive 802

all pass 796

arithmetic symmetry 785

band pass 785, 791

band-reject 791

bandwidth 785

biquad 799

biquad IIR 799

Butterworth 792

capacitive networks 787

center frequency 785

Chebyshevs 792

constant Q 802

constant-k 789

corner frequency 785

cutoff frequency 785

damping factor 793

digital 797

elliptical 793

equalizers 785, 800

finite impulse response 798

FIR 798

Fourier Transform 798

geometric symmetry 785

graphic 800

group delay 786