BS EN 60869-1:2013 - Page 2

Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components. Fibre optic passive power control devices. Generic specification | Status: Superseded, Withdrawn

1 Scope This part of IEC 60869 applies to fibre optic power control devices. These have all of the following general features:

• – they are passive in that they contain no opto-electronic or other transducing elements;
• – they have two ports for the transmission of optical power and control the transmitted power in a fixed or variable fashion;
• – the ports are unconnectorized optical fibre tails or optical fibre pigtails with connectors.

This standard establishes generic requirements for the following passive optical devices:

• – optical attenuator;
• – optical fuse;
• – optical power limiter.

Test and measurement procedures for the above products are described in IEC 61300‑1, the IEC 61300‑2 series and the 61300-3 series [1,2,3] 1.