UNE-EN IEC 61290-1-1:2020

This part of IEC 61290 applies to all commercially available optical amplifiers (OAs) andoptically amplified modules. It applies to OAs using optical fibre amplifiers (OFAs) based oneither rare-earth doped fibres or on the Raman effect, semiconductor OAs (SOAs) and planaroptical waveguide amplifiers (POWAs).The object of this standard is to establish uniform requirements for accurate and reliablemeasurements, by means of the optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) test method, of the followingOA parameters, as defined in IEC 61291-1:a) nominal output signal power;b) gain;c) polarization-dependent gain (PDG);d) maximum output signal power;e) maximum total output power.In addition, this standard provides the test method of:f) gain ripple (for SOAs).NOTE All numerical values followed by (! ) are suggested values for which the measurement is assured.The object of this standard is specifically directed to single-channel amplifiers. Test methodsfor multichannel amplifiers are standardized in the IEC 61290-10 series [1]2.