Optical Fiber Standards

Optical Standards

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