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Optical Fiber Standards

Last Updated: August 16, 2025
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Optical Standards

https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/techwatch/Pages/optical-standards.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-T

ITU-T Handbook

ITU-T Study Group 15 – Networks, Technologies and Infrastructures for Transport, Access and Home

ITU-T Video Tutorial on Optical Fibre Cables and Systems

 

Recommendations for which ITU-T test specifications are available
ITU-T Recommendations specifying test procedures are available for the following Recommendations:

 

Optical fibre cables:

  • G.652 (2009-11) Characteristics of a single-mode optical fibre and cable
  • G.653 (2010-07) Characteristics of a dispertion-shifted, single-mode optical fibre and cable
  • G.654 (2010-07) Characteristics of a cut-off shifted, single-mode optical fibre and cable
  • G.655 (2009-11) Characteristics of a non-zero dispersion-shifted single-mode optical fibre and cable
  • G.656 (2010-07) Characteristics of a fibre and cable with non-zero dispersion for wideband optical transport
  • G.657 (2009-11) Characteristics of a bending-loss insensitive single-mode optical fibre and cable for the access network

Characteristics of optical components and subsystems:

  • G.662 (2005-07) Generic characteristics of optical amplifier devices and subsystems
  • G.663 (2011-04) Application related aspects of optical amplifier devices and subsystems
  • G.664 (2006-03) Optical safety procedures and requirements for optical transport systems
  • G.665 (2005-01) Generic characteristics of Raman amplifiers and Raman amplified systems
  • G.666 (2011-02) Characteristics of PMD compensators and PMD compensating receivers
  • G.667 (2006-12) Characteristics of adaptive chromatic dispersion compensators

Optical fibre submarine cable systems:

  • G.973 (2010-07) Characteristics of repeaterless optical fibre submarine cable systems
  • G.974 (2007-07) Characteristics of regenerative optical fibre submarine cable systems
  • G.975.1 (2004-02) Forward error correction for high bit-rate DWDM submarine systems
  • G.977 (2011-04) Characteristics of optically amplified optical fibre submarine cable systems
  • G.978 (2010-07) Characteristics of optical fibre submarine cables

 

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