IEC TR 61282-1:2000

FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
1 General
    1.1 Scope
    1.2 Fibre optic systems performance
          considerations
2 Reference documents
3 Basic fibre optic system (BFOS)
4 General conditions for BFOS design
    4.1 Environmental conditions
    4.2 Worst-case values
    4.3 General system attributes
    4.4 Transmitter description
          4.4.1 General
          4.4.2 Transmitter parameters
    4.5 Receiver description
          4.5.1 General
          4.5.2 Receiver parameters (for both
                  digital and analogue systems)
    4.6 Branching devices
    4.7 Attenuators
    4.8 WDM devices
    4.9 Optical fibre amplifiers
    4.10 Connectors
    4.11 Office (indoor) cable
    4.12 Interbuilding and outside cable plant
    4.13 Working margin and ageing margin
5 Fibre optic system transmission design analysis
    5.1 Loss limited fibre optic systems
    5.2 Dispersion-limited fibre optic systems
          5.2.1 Digital systems
          5.2.2 Analogue systems
    5.3 Design and analysis computational algorithms
          5.3.1 Digital systems
          5.3.2 Analogue systems
          5.3.3 Subcarrier multiplexing (SCM)
                  transmission systems
Annex A Statistical system design (statistical
          approach to gain and loss)
Annex B Worst-case system design (determination of
          the worst-case dispersion coefficient)

Describes a methodology for engineering a single-mode fibre optic transmission system for telecommunications and broadband video distribution applications.