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The main task of IEC technical committees is to prepare International Standards. However, a technical committee may propose the publication of a technical report when it has collected data of a different kind from that which is normally published as an International Standard, for example "state of the art".

IEC 61292‑1 , which is a technical report, has been prepared by subcommittee 86C: Fibre optic systems and active devices, of IEC technical committee 86: Fibre optics.

This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 1998. It is a technical revision with updates reflecting new technology.

The text of this technical report is based on the following documents:

Enquiry draft	Report on voting
86C/853/DTR	86C/871/RVC

Full information on the voting for the approval of this technical report can be found in the report on voting indicated in the above table.

A list of all parts of the IEC 61292 series, published under the general title Optical amplifiers, can be found on the IEC website.

This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.

The committee has decided that the contents of this publication will remain unchanged until the maintenance result date indicated on the IEC web site under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data related to the specific publication. At this date, the publication will be

• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.

A bilingual version of this technical report may be published later.

PD IEC/TR 61292-1:2009

Optical amplifiers - Parameters of amplifier components

Published:

29 Apr 2009

Withdrawn:

29 Jul 2022