BS EN 61290-10-1:2009 PDF

What is BS EN 61290-10-1 - Optical amplifiers about?

BS EN 61290-10-1 applies to optical amplifiers (OAs) using active fibres and waveguides, containing rare-earth dopants, currently commercially available. BS EN 61290-10-1 gives the test method, that independently detects amplified signal power and amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) power by launching optical pulses into the OA under test and synchronously detecting "on" and "off" levels of the output pulses by using an optical sampling switch and an optical spectrum analyzer (OSA). BS EN 61290-10-1 gives the test method that describes multichannel applications, which includes single-channel applications as a s...