June 1987 | Technical Report TR-87-216
A Program Description of FIBRAM: A Radiation Attenuation Model for 0ptical Fibers, June 1987
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William J. Ingram, “A Program Description of FIBRAM: A Radiation Attenuation Model for 0ptical Fibers, June 1987,” Technical Report TR-87-216, U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Institute for Telecommunication Sciences, June 1987.
William J. Ingram
Abstract: This report describes a fiber optics system model and its computer implementation. This implementation can calculate the bit error ratio (BER) versus time for optical fibers that have been exposed to gamma radiation. The program is designed so that the user may arbitrarily change any or all of the system input variables and produce separate output calculations. The primary output of the program is a table of the BER as a function of time. This table may be stored on magnetic media and later incorporated into computer graphics programs. The program was written in FORTRAN 77 for the IBM PC/AT/XT computers. Flow charts and program listings are included in this report.
Keywords: optical fiber; bit error rate (BER); computer program; bit error ratio; gamma radiation; optical fiber communications
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