INTRODUCTION
1. SCOPE
2. APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS
3. DEFINITIONS OF GENERAL FIBER OPTIC LINK TERMS
AND PARAMETERS WITH RELEVANT UNITS
4. CALCULATION METHODS
5. SUMMARY
6. REFERENCES
7. NOTES
APPENDIX A - RELEVANT STATISTICS
APPENDIX B - NUMERICAL METHOD EXAMPLE WITH COMPARISON
TO WORST CASE AND STATISTICAL METHODS
APPENDIX C - OPTICAL REFERENCE PLANE LOCATION
APPENDIX D - BER RELATIONSHIP WITH SNR
APPENDIX E - BER, Q, AND SNR (SNR VERSUS OSNR AND RELATED
CONFUSION)
APPENDIX F - MODELING AND SIMULATION
APPENDIX G - TECHNOLOGY READINESS LEVELS