To all readers, my sincere apologies for abandoning the blog for some while... I love the work here in Finisar, it has always been keeping me occupied and learning. I am starting to find at home with the system and running of the company, the rules and regulation, do-s and don't'-s, and a little more extras here and there ;)
The 300-pin Transponder Department that I am associated with, is a fairly new department, dated about a year plus back since its establishment. Ever since, a pioneer group of Engineers and Technicians, who came back from the United States earlier, are the pillars who keep the production line running.
Actually, I have alot of things to share with you, but now, I am more aware of my obligations to the confidentiality of company intelligence, so I have to carefully filter what I can or cannot show in public.
My first assignment was to understand the tuning process of a Transponder, with the correct parameters, a perfect 'EYE'
should be obtained. This tuning process allows us to have smooth transmitting and receiving of data through the fibers. And simple as you might understand now, it really takes skill to do the job fast and accurately, if you give it to a freshman like me... Haha... it will surely take some time...Sometimes, we come accross modules that cannot be tuned nicely... NO, we don't throw them away! We just send it to the Debug Team. These are the people with the schematics embedded in their heads. Amazingly, some can instantly point out the problem, and they just know what to do with them... Microscopes, Solder and computer screens are their everyday tools! I've read through some of their schematics, and what do you know... I can understand a thing or two there! Thank you UNITEN. And I leave you with these words today...
The pupil can only educate himself. Teachers are the custodians of apparatus upon which he himself must turn and twist to acquire the excellencies that distinguish the better from the poorer of God's vessels. ~Martin H. Fischer
