IEC 61290-10-2 Ed. 1.0 b:2003

Applies to optical fibre amplifiers (OFA) using active fibres, containing rare-earth dopants, currently commercially available. The object is to establish uniform requirements for accurate and reliable measurements of the signal-spontaneous noise figure as defined in 3.1.18 of IEC 61291-1.The test method described is, in general, for multichannel applications. Single-channel applications are a special case of multichannel applications.