BS EN 61290-4-1:2011

Optical amplifiers. Test methods - Gain transient parameters. Two-wavelength method

Published:

31 Oct 2011

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Withdrawn:

31 Jan 2017

1 Scope and object

This part of IEC 61290‑4 applies to erbium-doped fibre amplifiers (EDFAs) and optically amplified elementary sub-systems. It applies to OAs using active fibres (optical fibre amplifiers, OFAs), containing rare-earth dopants. These amplifiers are commercially available and widely deployed in service provider networks.

The object of this part of IEC 61290‑4 is to provide the general background for EDFA transients and related parameters, and to describe a standard test method for accurate and reliable measurement of the following transient parameters:

• Channel addition/removal transient gain overshoot and transient net gain overshoot
• Channel addition/removal transient gain undershoot and transient net gain undershoot
• Channel addition/removal gain offset
• Channel addition/removal transient gain response time constant (settling time)

Product Details

Descriptors

Electronic equipment and components

Response time

Optical fibres

Optical amplifiers

Fibre optics

Wavelengths

Gain control

Optoelectronic devices

Optical measurement

Amplifiers

Amplification

ICS Codes

33.180.30 Optic amplifiers

Committee

GEL/86/3

International relationships

Identical to:

EN 61290-4-1:2011

IEC 61290-4-1:2011

ISBN

978 0 580 68182 0

Publisher

BSI