EN 61280-1-4:2010

Fibre optic communication subsystem test procedures - Part 1-4: General communication subsystems - Light source encircled flux measurement method

IEC 61280-1-4:2009 sets forth a standard procedure for the collection of two-dimensional fibre optic nearfield greyscale data and subsequent reduction to one-dimensional data expressed as a set of three sampled parametric functions of radius from the fibre's optical centre. This revision of IEC 61280-1-4 continues to fulfil its original purpose, characterization of transmission light sources, which enables the accurate mathematical prediction of minimum guaranteed link length in 1 gigabit per second or greater fibre optic data communication systems. New to this revision is support for improved measurement precision of insertion loss in multimode fibre optic links through the characterization of measurement light sources.

Lichtwellenleiter-Kommunikationsuntersysteme - Grundlegende Prüfverfahren - Teil 1-4: Allgemeine Kommunikationsuntersysteme - Verfahren zur Messung des begrenzten Lichtstroms einer Strahlungsquelle

Procédures d'essai des sous-systèmes de télécommunication à fibres optiques - Partie 1-4: Sous-systèmes généraux de télécommunication - Méthode de mesure du flux inscrit de la source lumineuse

La CEI 61280-1-4:2009 définit une procédure standard consistant à collecter des données de niveaux de gris de champ proche de fibres optiques bidimensionnelles, puis à les réduire en données unidimensionnelles exprimées sous la forme d'un ensemble de trois fonctions paramétriques échantillonnées du rayon par rapport au centre optique de la fibre. La présente révision de la CEI 61280-1-4 satisfait ce but initial, la caractérisation des sources lumineuses de transmission, qui permet une prévision mathématique précise de la longueur minimum garantie de la liaison dans les systèmes de communication de données par fibres optiques de 1 gigabit par seconde ou plus. Une nouveauté de cette révision est l'amélioration de la précision des mesures des pertes d'insertion dans des liaisons à fibres optiques multimodales par la caractérisation des sources lumineuses de mesure.

Postopki preskušanja optičnega komunikacijskega podsistema - 1-4. del: Splošni komunikacijski podsistemi - Merilna metoda za pretok, ki ga obkroža svetlobni vir (IEC 61280-1-4:2009)

Ta del IEC 61280 je namenjen opredelitvi pretoka, ki ga obkrožata dve vrsti svetlobnega vira: transmisijski svetlobni viri, ki so običajno koherentni in vzbujajo manjše število rodov večrodovnega vlakna, in merilni svetlobni viri, ki so nekoherentni in vzbujajo večino rodov večrodovnega vlakna. Ta del IEC 61280 določa standardni postopek za zbiranje črno-belih dvodimenzionalnih bližnjih podatkov optičnih vlaken in kasnejše zmanjševanje na enodimenzionalne podatke, izražene kot zaporedje treh vzorčenih parametričnih funkcij premera od optične sredine vlakna. Ta revizija IEC 61280-1-4 še naprej izpolnjuje svoj prvotni namen, opredelitev lastnosti transmisijskih svetlobnih virov, kar omogoča natančno matematično napovedovanje minimalne zagotovljene dolžine povezave pri sistemih za podatkovno komunikacijo z optičnimi vlakni s hitrostjo 1 gigabita na sekundo ali več. Novost v tej reviziji je podpora boljši natančnosti merjenja notranje izgube pri večrodovnih povezavah iz optičnih vlaken preko opredelitve lastnosti merilnih svetlobnih virov. Ocena premera sredice vlakna ni namen tega standarda.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 11-Feb-2010
• Withdrawal Date: 31-Jan-2013
• ICS: 33.180.01 - Fibre optic systems in general
• Technical Committee: CLC/SR 86C - Fibre optic systems and active devices
• Drafting Committee: IEC/SC 86C - IEC_SC_86C
• Parallel Committee: IEC/SC 86C - IEC_SC_86C
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 12-Feb-2010
• Completion Date: 12-Feb-2010
• Ref Project: SIST EN 61280-1-4:2010 - Fibre optic communication subsystem test procedures - Part 1-4: General communication subsystems - Light source encircled flux measurement method (IEC 61280-1-4:2009)

Relations

• Replaces: EN 61280-1-4:2003 - Fibre optic communication subsystem test procedures - Part 1-4: General communication subsystems - Collection and reduction of two-dimensional nearfield data for multimode fibre laser transmitters
• Effective Date: 28-Jan-2023
• Replaced By: EN IEC 61280-1-4:2023 - Fibre optic communication subsystem test procedures - Part 1-4: General communication subsystems - Light source encircled flux measurement method
• Effective Date: 23-Jan-2023

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Fibre optic communication subsystem test procedures - Part 1-4: General
communication subsystems - Light source encircled flux measurement method (IEC
61280-1-4:2009)

Lichtwellenleiter-Kommunikationsuntersysteme - Grundlegende Prüfverfahren - Teil 1-4:

Allgemeine Kommunikationsuntersysteme - Verfahren zur Messung des begrenzten
Lichtstroms einer Strahlungsquelle (IEC 61280-1-4:2009)

Procédures d'essai des sous-systèmes de télécommunication à fibres optiques - - Partie

1-4: Sous-systèmes généraux de télécommunication - Méthode de mesure du flux inscrit

de la source lumineuse (CEI 61280-1-4:2009)
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EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 61280-1-4
NORME EUROPÉENNE
February 2010
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 33.180.01 Supersedes EN 61280-1-4:2003
English version
Fibre optic communication subsystem test procedures -
Part 1-4: General communication subsystems -
Light source encircled flux measurement method
(IEC 61280-1-4:2009)
Procédures d'essai des sous-systèmes Lichtwellenleiter-
de télécommunication à fibres optiques - Kommunikationsuntersysteme -
Partie 1-4: Sous-systèmes généraux Grundlegende Prüfverfahren -
de télécommunication - Teil 1-4: Allgemeine
Méthode de mesure du flux inscrit Kommunikationsuntersysteme -
de la source lumineuse Verfahren zur Messung des begrenzten
(CEI 61280-1-4:2009) Lichtstroms einer Strahlungsquelle
(IEC 61280-1-4:2009)

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Foreword

The text of document 86C/920/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 61280-1-4, prepared by SC 86C, Fibre optic

systems and active devices, of IEC TC 86, Fibre optics, was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote

and was approved by CENELEC as EN 61280-1-4 on 2010-02-01.
This European Standard supersedes EN 61280-1-4:2003.

The significant technical changes with respect to EN 61280-1-4:2003 are described in the introduction.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of

patent rights. CEN and CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent

rights.
The following dates were fixed:
– latest date by which the EN has to be implemented
at national level by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2010-11-01
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2013-02-01
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice

The text of the International Standard IEC 61280-1-4:2009 was approved by CENELEC as a European

Standard without any modification.

In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated:

IEC 60793-1-20 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60793-1-20.
IEC 60793-1-41 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60793-1-41.
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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated

references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced

document (including any amendments) applies.

NOTE When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD

applies.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60793-2-10 - Optical fibres - EN 60793-2-10 -
Part 2-10: Product specifications - Sectional
specification for category A1 multimode fibres
IEC 60825-1 - Safety of laser products - EN 60825-1 -
Part 1: Equipment classification and
requirements
IEC 61745 1988 End-face image analysis procedure for the - -
calibration of optical fibre geometry test sets
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CONTENTS

FOREWORD...........................................................................................................................4

0 Introduction ......................................................................................................................6

0.1 General ...................................................................................................................6

0.2 Changes from previous edition ................................................................................6

0.3 Assumptions applicable to the characterization of data sources ..............................6

0.4 Assumptions applicable to the characterization of measurement sources ................6

1 Scope...............................................................................................................................7

2 Normative references .......................................................................................................7

3 Terms and definitions .......................................................................................................7

4 Symbols ...........................................................................................................................8

5 Apparatus.........................................................................................................................9

5.1 Common apparatus .................................................................................................9

5.1.1 General .......................................................................................................9

5.1.2 Computer ..................................................................................................10

5.1.3 Image digitizer...........................................................................................10

5.1.4 Detector ....................................................................................................10

5.1.5 Magnifying optics.......................................................................................11

5.1.6 Attenuation ................................................................................................11

5.1.7 Micropositioner (optional) ..........................................................................11

5.1.8 Input port...................................................................................................12

5.1.9 Calibration light source..............................................................................12

5.2 Transmission source apparatus .............................................................................12

5.2.1 General .....................................................................................................12

5.2.2 Test jumper assembly................................................................................13

5.2.3 Fibre shaker ..............................................................................................13

5.3 Measurement source apparatus ............................................................................14

6 Sampling and specimens................................................................................................14

7 Geometric calibration .....................................................................................................15

8 Measurement procedure.................................................................................................15

8.1 Safety ...................................................................................................................15

8.2 Image acquisition ..................................................................................................15

8.2.1 Raw image acquisition...............................................................................15

8.2.2 Dark image acquisition ..............................................................................16

8.2.3 Corrected image ........................................................................................16

8.3 Optical centre determination..................................................................................16

8.3.1 General .....................................................................................................16

8.3.2 Centroid image ..........................................................................................16

8.3.3 Centroid computation ................................................................................17

8.4 Test source image acquisition ...............................................................................17

9 Computation of encircled flux .........................................................................................17

9.1 Computation of radial data functions .....................................................................17

9.2 Integration limit and baseline determination...........................................................19

9.2.1 Integration limit..........................................................................................19

9.2.2 Baseline determination ..............................................................................19

9.2.3 Baseline subtraction ..................................................................................19

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9.3 Computation of encircled flux ................................................................................19

10 Results ...........................................................................................................................20

10.1 Information available with each measurement .......................................................20

10.2 Information available upon request........................................................................20

11 Specification information ................................................................................................20

Annex A (informative) Measurement sensitivity considerations ............................................22

Annex B (informative) Theory of geometric calibration using the micropositioner .................27

Annex C (normative) Procedure for geometric calibration using the micropositioner.............32

Bibliography..........................................................................................................................34

Figure 1 – Apparatus block diagram......................................................................................10

Figure 2 – Typical set-up for transmission source measurement ...........................................13

Figure 3 – Fibre shaker example...........................................................................................14

Figure 4 – Pixel and ring illustration......................................................................................18

Figure A.1 – Core images from instrument A and instrument B .............................................22

Figure A.2 – Compressed core images from instrument A and instrument B..........................22

Figure A.3 – Intensity versus radius for Instruments A and B ................................................23

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FOREWORD

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International Standard IEC 61280-1-4 has been prepared by subcommittee 86C: Fibre optic

systems and active devices, of IEC technical committee 86: Fibre optics.

This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2003. This second

edition constitutes a technical revision. The significant technical changes with respect to the

previous edition are described in the introduction.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
86C/920/FDIS 86C/932/RVD

Full information on the voting for the approval of this standard can be found in the report on

voting indicated in the above table.
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This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.

A list of all parts of the IEC 61280 series can be found, under the general title Fibre optic

communication subsystem test procedures, on the IEC website.

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0 Introduction
0.1 General

This part of IEC 61280 is used to measure the encircled flux of a multimode light source.

Encircled flux is a measure, as a function of radius, of the fraction of the total power radiating

from a multimode optical fibre’s core.

The basic approach is to collect 2D nearfield data using a calibrated camera, and to

mathematically convert the 2D data into three normalized functions of radial distance from the

fibre’s optical centre. The three functions are intensity, incremental flux and encircled flux.

Intensity has dimension optical power per area; incremental flux has dimension power per

differential of radius; and encircled flux has dimension total optical power, all three being

functions of radius.

These three radial functions are intended to characterize fibre optic laser sources either for

use in mathematical models predicting the minimum guaranteed length of a communications

link, or to qualify a light source to measure insertion loss in multimode links.
0.2 Changes from previous edition

This edition of the standard differs from its predecessor in both scope and content. Many of

the content changes improve the measurement precision. Several changes have been made

to the computation procedure:

• the integration methodology of the radial functions was simple summation, and is now

specified to use trapezoidal integration or other higher-order techniques (see 9.3);

• a baseline subtraction step is specified to improve immunity to DC drifts (see 9.2.2 and

9.2.3);
• the ring width parameter is explicitly specified (see 9.2.1);
• the integration limit is specified (see 9.3).

The geometric calibration of the apparatus microscope now specifies either (depending on the

application) the methodology of IEC 61745 or the original technique using the

micropositioning stage (see Clause 7). Pixel sensitivity uniformity correction is now optional.

0.3 Assumptions applicable to the characterization of data sources

The 50-μm or 62,5-μm core near-parabolic graded-index multimode fibre used as the “test

jumper assembly” is treated as if it possessed perfect circular symmetry about its optical

centre, as asymmetries in the launched optical flux distributions will dominate any

lopsidedness of the test jumper assembly. It is further assumed that all cladding modes will be

stripped by passage through the specified ten metres or more of fibre. The modes of a mode

group need not carry equal flux. (In fact, with such short fibres, one thousand metres or less,

unequal distribution of flux in the modes of a group is the norm, not the exception.)

0.4 Assumptions applicable to the characterization of measurement sources

Measurement sources are assumed to be sufficiently broadband and incoherent that speckle

is not a problem, and to have a sufficiently symmetrical nearfield distribution that the

truncated centroid of that nearfield indicates the location of the optical centre of the fibre with

sufficient accuracy for the purposes of this standard.
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FIBRE OPTIC COMMUNICATION SUBSYSTEM TEST PROCEDURES –
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Light source encircled flux measurement method
1 Scope

This part of IEC 61280 is intended to characterize the encircled flux of two types of light

sources: transmission light sources, which are usually coherent and substantially under-excite

the mode volume of a multimode fibre, and measurement light sources, which are incoherent

and excite most of the mode volume of a multimode fibre.

This part of IEC 61280 sets forth a standard procedure for the collection of two-dimensional

fibre optic nearfield greyscale data and subsequent reduction to one-dimensional data

expressed as a set of three sampled parametric functions of radius from the fibre’s optical

centre. This revision of IEC 61280-1-4 continues to fulfil its original purpose, characterization

of transmission light sources, which enables the accurate mathematical prediction of minimum

guaranteed link length in 1 gigabit per second or greater fibre optic data communication

systems. New to this revision is support for improved measurement precision of insertion loss

in multimode fibre optic links through the characterization of measurement light sources.

Estimation of the fibre core diameter is not an objective of this standard.
2 Normative references

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document.

For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition

of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

IEC 60793-2-10, Optical fibres – Part 2-10: Product specifications – Sectional specification for

category A1 multimode fibres

IEC 60825-1, Safety of laser products – Part 1: Equipment classification and requirements

IEC 61745:1988, End-face image analysis procedure for the calibration of optical fibre

geometry test sets
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1
calibration light source
light source used to find the optical centre of a multimode fibre
3.2
centroid image
image used to determine the optical centre of the multimode fibre core
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3.3
corrected image
image which has had a dark image subtracted from it and whose elements have had
uniformity correction applied
3.4
dark image

image taken with the measured light source either turned off or not installed in the input port.

Stray light and electrical signals of the detection system will remain in the dark image

3.5
image

two-dimensional rectangular array of numbers whose elements are pixels and whose pixel

values linearly correspond to the optical power falling on the pixels
3.6
light source

something that emits light that is coupled into a fibre, the output of which can be measured

(can be a calibration light source, a transmission light source or a light source used for

attenuation measurements)
3.7
measurement light source
light source intended to be used in the measurement of attenuation
3.8
nominal core radius
half the nominal core diameter of the multimode fibre to be measured
3.9
ring smoothing

technique to reduce the two dimensional near field image into a 1-D near field intensity profile

while cancelling the effects of the periodic spacing of imager pixels of finite area

3.10
transmission light source
light source used to transmit digital data over multimode fibre optic links
3.11
uniformity correction

process to correct the sensitivity of a pixel so that it performs substantially like an average

pixel
3.12
valid pixel

optical detection element in the detector matrix whose sensitivity, when corrected, is within

5 % of the mean sensitivity of the average conversion efficiency of the detector
4 Symbols

B the baseline intensity. This value is determined from a region of the computed near

field just outside the core boundary.

D the distance from the centre of the centroid image to the nearest boundary of the

image.

D , D , D , D the set of distances from the centre of the centroid image to, respectively, the

L R T B
left, right, top and bottom boundaries of the image. The minimum of this set is
used to compute D.
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EF(i) the encircled flux vector.

i the index parameter used in the parametric result vectors R(i), I(i) and EF(i) .

I the matrix of pixel intensities of a dark image as measured by the detector and

dark
digitizer.

I the matrix of pixel intensities of the light source, before correction, as measured by the

raw
detector and image digitizer.

I near-field intensity matrix. This is a matrix of pixel intensities, based on I , as

r,c raw
measured by the detector and corrected using U and I
dark..

I(i) the ring-smoothed intensity vector, each element being the arithmetic average of the

set of radial coordinates of all the pixels in a given ring.
N the number of rings used to compute the 1-D near field.

N the number of rows in an image. All columns in an image have the same number of

rows.

N the number of columns in an image. All rows in an image have the same number of

columns.
P the most intense valid pixel in the centroid image.
Max
P the least intense valid pixel in the centroid image.
Min

R the radial coordinate, in μm, of the centre of any pixel, referenced to the optical centre

X ,Y .
0 0

R(i) the ring-smoothed radial vector, each element being the arithmetic average of the radii

of all the pixels in the i ring.

S the column-weighted summation of all pixel intensities greater than T in the centroid

image.
S (i) the intensity summation vector used in ring smoothing.
S the summation of all pixel intensities greater than T in the centroid image.
S (i) the pixel counting vector used in ring smoothing.
S (i) the radius summation vector used in ring smoothing.

S the row-weighted summation of all pixel intensities greater than T in the centroid

image.

T the threshold used to determine which pixels in the centroid image will be used to

determine the optical centre. All pixels greater than or equal to T are used to compute

the centroid.

U the sensitivity correction matrix, applied to a dark-subtracted image to reduce non-

r,c
uniformity of the detector’s pixel-to-pixel conversion efficiency.
W the half-width, in μm, of the rings used to compute the 1-D near field.
X the x-axis (column) location of the centre of the centroid image.
Y the y-axis (row) location of the centre of the centroid image.
5 Apparatus
5.1 Common apparatus
5.1.1 General
The Figure 1 below shows an apparatus block diagram.
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Collimating
region
Computer
Attenuat
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