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 Overview of various
line coding schemes
7.2 Return-to-zero (RZ)
implementation
7.3 ODB and RZ-AMI line
coding format
7.4 Differential phase
shift keying (DPSK) modulation implementations
7.5 Differential
quadrature phase shift keying (DQPSK) implementation
7.6 DP-QPSK (PM-QPSK)
implementation
7.7 Optical orthogonal
frequency division multiplexing (O-OFDM)
7.8 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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