Most of our courses are available both as scheduled public courses open to individual bookings, and as private courses at your facility. For more on public vs private courses see here, and for dates of currently scheduled public courses see here. Please note, most of our more specialised or advanced courses are scheduled “on demand”, that is, we will arrange a public course at dates to suit for 2 or more delegates.

The list of courses below gives a good indication of our expertise, but covers by no means all the courses and variations we have developed for assorted customers. If you would like a course that is not in the list, see here for bespoke course options.

City & Guilds 3668 Communications Cabling Certificate

The City & Guilds 3668 Communications Cabling certificate is aimed primarily at new installers or testers, but is also suitable for on-site supervisors, and people who already have some practical experience but need a formal qualification.

Lucid offer the following single 3668 units:

• City & Guilds 3668 Unit 1 Safety & Basic Principles, Home study + review & exam at Lucid (2-4 hours)
• City & Guilds 3668 Unit 2 Fibre Cabling (5 days)
• City & Guilds 3668 Unit 3 Structured Cabling (4 days)
• City & Guilds 3668 Unit 4 Blown Fibre & Cable (3 days)

Introductory Fibre Optics Courses

• Fibre Optics Introduction & Splicing (3 days)
• Fibre Optics Introduction (2 days, many versions available)
• Introduction to Optical Fibre Technology and systems (1 day)
• Introduction to Optical Fibre Testing (1 day)
• Introduction to Structured Cabling (1 day)
• Introduction to copper telecoms cabling (various)
• Plastic Optical Fibres Overview

Practical Fibre Optic Skills (Installation)

• Fibre & Cable Blowing OA Level 3 (3 days)
• Ribbon Splicing (1 day)
• Fibre Optic Cable Installation (2 days)
• Optical Fibre Jointing & Splicing (2 day)
• Highways Cable Installation & Testing (5 days    includes C&G 3668 unit 2 fibre Cabling
• Submarine Optical Fibre Installation (1 day)
  long distance telecoms
• Subsea Optical Fibre Installation (1 day)
     short distance private networks
• Introduction to OTDR Testing (1 day)
• Umbilical Cable Splicing and Testing (5 days)
  Can include 3668 unit 2 or OA Level 3 Adv OTDR Testing

Fibre Testing

• AFCE Advanced Fibre Characterisation Engineer
  (5 days, incl Adv OTDR and Adv PMD & CD Cert)
• Advanced OTDR Testing, Level 3 Cert (3 days)
• OTDR Emulation Software & Trace Analysis
  (1 day, remote option available)
• Advanced PMD & Chromatic Dispersion Testing, Level 3 Certificate (3 days)
• PMD & Chromatic Dispersion Evaluation and Interpretation (1-2 days)
• Advanced OSA Measurements (1 day)
• Advanced OTDR Measurements (2 days)
• CWDM & DWDM Testing (2 days)
• Advanced Component Testing (2 days)
• Umbilical Cable Testing (5 days)

Fibre Networks & Technology

• Advanced Fibre Networks Technology OA Level 3 Cert (4-5 days)
• Advanced Fibre Networks Technology (3-4 days)

• DWDM Systems & Technology (2 days)

• CWDM Systems & Technology (1 day)
• Polarisation Technology (2 days)
• G.655 Fibre Networks (1 day)
• Raman Amplification (1 day)
• EDFA Amplification (1 day)
• Long Distance Fibre Network Design (3 days)
• Brillouin OTDR and Fibre Sensors
• Fibre Networks Planning and Design (FTTX) OA Level 3 (4 days)

Photonics Courses

A series of introductory and advanced courses developed for laboratory
based engineers and researchers in the photonics industry, but also suitable
for managers and sales/marketing staff.

• Practical Fibre Handling (1 day)
• Photonics Components (1 day)
• Photonics Applications (1 day)
• Introduction to Dispersion Testing (1 day)
• Optical Power & Loss Testing (1 day)
• Optical Wavelength Measurement (1 day)
• Advanced Photonics Component Testing (2 days)
• Refractive Index Measurement Techniques (2 days)

Copper and Copper/Fibre Datacoms Courses

• Introduction to Structured Cabling (1 day)
• Test & Certification of Structured Cabling Systems (1 day)
• Structured Cabling for Installers (2 days)
• Advanced Structured Cabling
• Datacoms Installation (Copper & Fibre)
• Network Cabling Installation
• Campus LAN Cabling Testing (Copper & Fibre)
• Datacoms Network Design (Copper Gigabit and Fibre)
• Introduction to Cat 6 and Cat 7 Installation and Testing
• Cat 7 update/refresher (1 day)
• Wireless LAN Training

Course duration depends on customer requirements

Telecoms copper cabling

• Introduction to Telecoms Copper Cabling
• Telecoms Cabling Design & Planning
• Copper Cable Jointing
• D-side Copper Cable Testing
• Advanced Copper Telecoms Cable Testing

Course duration depends on customer requirements.

Laser / LED / IPL Safety

Our series of Laser Safety training courses fully covers the BS EN 60825-1 and -14 (2007) Laser Safety Standard. The courses are completely modular and can be run in sequence or as individual events. These courses are usually run to order but we also schedule public courses on demand when required.

• Laser Safety (Open Awards level 3) (2 days)
• Introduction to LED and Lamp safety (1 day)
• Introduction to Laser Safety in Fibre Optics (1 day)
• Introduction to Laser Safety, general (1 day)
• Laser Safety Management & Implementation (1 day, requires intro course)
• Laser Safety Advanced Workshop (1 day, requires intro course)
• Laser Safety Advanced Principles (1 day)
• Laser Safety Officer Coaching (remote follow-on training for new laser safety officers)
• Core of knowledge Laser/IPL Safety course for medical/cosmetic/dental/tattoo removal professionals (1/2 day)

Specialist and industry specific courses

• Umbilical Fibre & Copper jointing and Testing (several versions)
• Umbilical Fibre and Copper Advanced Testing
• Umbilical Copper Cabling
• Umbilical Fibre Cabling
• Highways Hybrid Cabling
• Introduction to Fibre optics in subsea cabling
• Advanced Testing of Fibre optics in Subsea cabling
• Fibre optics for Wind Industry (incl C&G 3668 and/or ECS approved OA Level 3 Award)
• Umbilical Fibre and Copper Cables for Wind Industry
• Fibre Optics Installation and Testing for Aerospace (Incl C&G 3668 or OA Level 3 Award)