IEC 61291-1:20 18适用于所有市售光放大器（OA）和光放大组件。它适用于使用光泵浦光纤（基于稀土掺杂光纤或拉曼效应的OFAs）、半导体（SOAs）和波导（POWAs）的OAs。本文件的目的是 -为OAs的传输、操作、可靠性和环境特性制定统一要求，以及 -协助买方为其特定应用选择一贯高质量的办公自动化产品。 为OA指定的参数是表征从一般观点被视为“黑匣子”的OA的传输、操作、可靠性和环境属性的参数。在分段和详细规范中，将根据特定OA装置或组件的类型和应用来指定这些参数的子集。这第四版取消并取代了2012年出版的第三版。本版构成技术修订版。与上一版相比，此版本包括以下重大技术变更: -增加了IEC 61290-4-3和IEC 61290-10-5参数的术语； -第4条分类已被删除，因为该系统被判断为未使用； -偏振模色散(PMD)的定义已经简化。 关键词:光放大器（OAs）

IEC 61291-1:2018 applies to all commercially available optical amplifiers (OAs) and optically amplified assemblies. It applies to OAs using optically pumped fibres (OFAs based either on rare-earth doped fibres or on the Raman effect), semiconductors (SOAs), and waveguides (POWAs). The object of this document is
- to establish uniform requirements for transmission, operation, reliability and environmental properties of OAs, and
- to provide assistance to the purchaser in the selection of consistently high-quality OA products for his particular applications.
Parameters specified for OAs are those characterizing the transmission, operation, reliability and environmental properties of the OA seen as a "black box" from a general point of view. In the sectional and detail specifications a subset of these parameters will be specified according to the type and application of the particular OA device or assembly. This fourth edition cancels and replaces the third edition published in 2012. This edition constitutes a technical revision. This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:
- terms have been added for parameters from IEC 61290-4-3 and IEC 61290-10-5;
- Clause 4 Classification has been removed, since this system is judged to be unused;
- the definition of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) has been simplified.
Keywords: optical amplifiers (OAs)