1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 INTENT
1.2 SCOPE
1.3 DEFINITION
2 NORMATIVE REFERENCES
3 APPARATUS
3.1 OPTICAL SOURCE
3.2 STABILITY
3.3 LAUNCH SYSTEM
3.4 DETECTION SYSTEM
3.5 COMPUTATIONAL EQUIPMENT
4 SAMPLING AND SPECIMENS
4.1 TEST SAMPLE
4.2 SPECIMEN ENDFACES
4.3 SPECIMEN LENGTH
4.4 SPECIMEN PACKAGING
4.5 SPECIMEN POSITIONING
5 PROCEDURE
5.1 ADJUST AND MEASURE SYSTEM RESPONSE
5.2 ADJUST DETECTION SYSTEM
5.3 MEASURE THE TEST SAMPLE
6 CALCULATIONS AND INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS
6.1 DIFFERENTIAL MODE DELAY (DMD)
6.2 LENGTH NORMALIZATION
7 DOCUMENTATION
7.1 REPORT THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION FOR EACH TEST:
7.2 THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION SHALL BE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST:
8 SPECIFICATION INFORMATION
ANNEX A (INFORMATIVE) COMPARISON BETWEEN THIS TECHNICAL REPORT
AND ITU RECOMMENDATIONS
ANNEX B (NORMATIVE) SOURCE SPECTRAL WIDTH LIMITATION
B.1 LIMITING THE EFFECT OF CHROMATIC DISPERSION ON THE
VALUE OF DMD
B.2 CHROMATIC DISPERSION IN MULTIMODE FIBRES
ANNEX C (INFORMATIVE) DISCUSSION OF MEASUREMENT DETAILS