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Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components - Basic test and measurement procedures - Part 3-2: Examination and measurements - Polarization dependent loss in a single-mode fibre optic device
STANDARD published on 12.1.2009
Designation standards: IEC 61300-3-2-ed.3.0
Publication date standards: 12.1.2009
SKU: NS-413084
The number of pages: 34
Approximate weight : 102 g (0.22 lbs)
Country: International technical standard
Category: Technical standards IEC
IEC 61300-3-2:2009 specifies measurement methods to determine the dependence of loss in a single-mode fibre optic device to changes in polarization. This procedure focuses on measurements with a fixed wavelength source; therefore, this procedure is applicable to devices whose properties at a single wavelength can represent those over the broader wavelength band. Typical examples of such devices are single-mode interconnecting devices and passive components, including connectors, splices, branching devices, attenuators, isolators, and switches. The maximum observed variation in transmission loss is referred to as polarization-dependent-loss (PDL). This standard applies to broadband devices and not to narrow-band devices like filters and multiplexers. The reader is referred to IEC 61300-3-29 for such measurements. This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition published in 1999. It constitutes a technical revision. The main changes with respect to the previous edition are: this edition includes both the all-states method of the previous edition as well as the Mueller matrix method from IEC 61300-3-12. Keywords: measurement methods to determine the dependence of loss in a single-mode fibre optic device to changes in polarization La CEI 61300-3-2:2009 specifie des methodes de mesure permettant de determiner la dependance de la perte dun dispositif pour fibres optiques unimodales aux variations de polarisation. La presente procedure porte sur les mesures comportant une source de longueurs donde fixe; de ce fait, cette procedure est applicable aux dispositifs dont les proprietes, a une longueur donde unique, peuvent representer celles situees sur une bande de longueurs donde plus large. A titre dexemples typiques de tels dispositifs, on peut citer les dispositifs dinterconnexion et composants passifs unimodaux, y compris les connecteurs, les epissures, les dispositifs de couplage, les affaiblisseurs, les isolateurs et les commutateurs. La variation de perte de transmission observee maximale est designee sous le terme de perte dependant de la polarisation (PDL, polarization-dependent-loss). La presente norme sapplique aux dispositifs a large bande et non pas aux dispositifs a bande etroite comme les filtres et les multiplexeurs. Le lecteur est invite a se referer a la CEI 61300-3-29 pour de telles mesures. Cette troisieme edition annule et remplace la deuxieme edition parue en 1999 et constitue une revision technique. Les modifications principales par rapport a ledition precedente sont: la presente edition comprend la methode tous etats de ledition anterieure ainsi que la methode de la matrice de Mueller decrite dans la CEI 61300-3-12. Mots cles: methodes de mesure permettant de determiner la dependance de la perte dun dispositif pour fibres optiques unimodales aux variations de polarisation
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