Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere       
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation           
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Conventions            
 6     Fibre attributes       
        6.1     Mode field diameter 
        6.2     Cladding diameter     
        6.3     Core concentricity error           
        6.4     Non-circularity             
        6.5     Cut-off wavelength   
        6.6     Macrobending loss    
        6.7     Material properties of the fibre            
        6.8     Refractive index profile            
        6.9     Longitudinal uniformity of chromatic dispersion           
       6.10     Chromatic dispersion              
 7     Cable attributes      
        7.1     Attenuation coefficient           
        7.2     Polarization mode dispersion coefficient          
 8     Recommended value tables              
Appendix I – Information about cabled fibre link attributes used for system design    
        I.1     Attenuation   
        I.2     Chromatic dispersion 
        I.3     Differential group delay            
        I.4     Tables of common typical values           
        I.5     Non-linear coefficient
        I.6     An example of statistical methodology
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