Scope and object

This part of IEC 61291 applies to optical fibre amplifiers (OFAs) and optically amplified, elementary subsystems. It applies only to OFAs using active fibres, containing rare-earth dopants, presently commercially available.

The object of this standard is:

— to establish uniform requirements for transmission, operation, reliability and environmental properties of OFAs;

— to provide assistance to the purchaser in the selection of consistently high-quality OFA products for his particular applications.

NOTE -This International Standard has been prepared from the experience with Erbium-doped silicabased fibre amplifiers, operating in the 1 550 nm wavelength region. Future OFAs, based on different active fibres and possibly operating in different wavelengths regions, are not intended to be excluded from this International Standard and may lead to additional definitions and test methods, as well as to modifications of the existing ones.