CONTENTS

 1     Scope 
 2     References 
 3     Abbreviations   
 4     Terms and Definitions      
        4.1     Distributed and discrete Raman amplifier    
        4.2     Optical signal power parameters    
        4.3     Gain parameters    
        4.4     Gain spectrum parameters  
        4.5     Noise parameters  
        4.6     Pump power parameters    
        4.7     Pump leakage parameters  
        4.8     Polarization dependent parameters 
        4.9     Channel addition/removal response
       4.10     Reflectance parameters     
       4.11     Insertion loss parameters   
       4.12     Other parameters  
 5     Classification    
        5.1     Rules of classification         
        5.2     Type code 
        5.3     Reference model    
 6     Generic Characteristics of Raman amplification devices     
 7     Performance parameters and test parameters        
 8     Optical safety   
Appendix I – Measurements of MPI for lightwave transmission system    
        I.1        Time domain extinction measurement [1]  
        I.2        Electrical measurement [2]           
Appendix II – Physical and equivalent models of distributed Raman amplifiers    
Appendix III – Considerations of splice and connector loss    
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