1 Scope
2
References
3
Terms and definitions
4
Abbreviations
5
Definition of spectral bands
5.1 General
considerations
5.2 Allocation
of spectral bands for single-mode fibre systems
5.3 Bands
for multimode fibre systems
6
Parameters of system elements
6.1 Line
coding
6.2 Transmitters
6.3 Optical
amplifiers
6.4 Optical
path
6.5 Receivers
7
Line coding considerations
7.1 Return-to-zero
(RZ) implementation
7.2 System
impairment considerations
8
Optical network topology
8.1 Topological
structures
9
"Worst-case" system design
9.1 Power
budget concatenation
9.2 Chromatic
dispersion
9.3 Polarization-mode
dispersion
9.4 BER and
Q factor
9.5 Noise
concatenation
9.6 Optical
crosstalk
9.7 Concatenation
of non-linear effects – Computational approach
10
Statistical system design
10.1 Generic
methodology
10.2 Statistical
design of loss
10.3 Statistical
design of chromatic dispersion
10.4 Statistical
design of polarization-mode dispersion
11
Forward Error Correction (FEC)
11.1 In-band
FEC in SDH systems
11.2 Out-of-band
FEC in optical transport networks (OTNs)
11.3 Coding
gain and net coding gain (NCG)
11.4 Theoretical
NCG bounds for some non-standard out-of-band FECs
11.5 Statistical
assumption for coding gain and NCG
11.6 Candidates
for parameter relaxation
11.7 Candidates
for improvement of system characteristics
12
Physical layer transverse and
longitudinal compatibility
12.1 Physical
layer transverse compatibility
12.2 Physical
layer longitudinal compatibility
12.3 Joint
engineering
13
Switched optical network design
considerations
14
Best practices for optical power safety
14.1 Viewing
14.2 Fibre
ends
14.3 Ribbon
fibres
14.4 Test
cords
14.5 Fibre
bends
14.6 Board
extenders
14.7 Maintenance
14.8 Test
equipment
14.9 Modification
14.10 Key
control
14.11 Labels
14.12 Signs
14.13 Alarms
14.14 Raman
amplified systems
Appendix I – Pulse broadening due to chromatic dispersion
I.1 Purpose
I.2 General
published result
I.3 Change
of notation
I.4 Simplification
for a particular case
I.5 Pulse
broadening related to bit rate
I.6 Value
of the shape factor
I.7 General
result and practical units
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