[115108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Eye protection in DWDM systems -- what threshold?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Jun 9 00:45:08 2009
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 00:42:41 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
At what power level do DWDM systems become dangerous to work near (i.e. not=
staring into any optics, using light meters, etc)? I never see technicians=
on inside DWDM systems using eye protection, but I see power levels of amp=
s going higher and higher. On a recent meter I saw almost .6mW...=20
Any pointers to a document saying 1550nm becomes dangerous at xxxx dbM?
Thanks in advance,
DJ=
