Understanding the variety of fiber optic testing standards
Manufacturers of fiber optic products must demonstrate compliance to various safety and performance standards and requirements in order to achieve market access goals and build customer trust.
UL Solutions can assess fiber optic products, including but not limited to optical fibers, optical fiber cables, optical connectors, optical splitters/couplers, optical distribution boxes and fiber terminal boxes, for performance and reliability to any published industry standard, such as UL Standards, as well as to your company’s proprietary specifications.
Common published standards for fiber optic products covered by UL Solutions testing services include:
- ANSI ICEA S-87-640 Standard for Optical Fiber Outside Plant Communications Cable
- GR-20 Generic Requirements for Optical Fiber and Optical Fiber Cable
- GR-326 Generic Requirements for Single-mode Optical Connectors and Jumper Assemblies
- GR-409 Generic Requirements for Indoor Fiber Optic Cable
- GR-771 Generic Requirements for Fiber Optic Splice Closures
- GR-1081 Generic Requirements for Field-Mountable Optical Fiber Connectors
- GR-1209 Generic Requirements for Passive Optical Components
- GR-1221 Generic Reliability Assurance Requirements for Passive Optical Components
- GR-1435 Generic Reliability for Multi-Fiber Optical Connectors (MPO, MTP, MMC, etc. used in Data Centers)
- GR-2866 Generic Requirements for Optical Fiber Fanouts
- GR-3120 Generic Requirement for Hardened Fiber Optic Connectors (HFOCs) and Hardened Fiber Optic Adapters (HFOAs)
- IEC 60793-1-20 Optical fibers – Measurement methods and test procedures – Fiber geometry
- IEC 60793-1-31 Optical fibers – Measurement methods and test procedures –Tensile strength
- IEC 60793-1-32 Optical fibers – Measurement methods and test procedures – Coating strip ability
- IEC 60793-1-40 Optical fibers – Attenuation measurement methods
- IEC 60793-1-44 Optical fibers – Measurement methods and test procedures – Cut-off wavelength
- IEC 60793-1-45 Optical fibers - Measurement methods and test procedures – Mode field diameter
- IEC 60793-1-47 Optical fibers – Measurement methods and test procedures – Macro bending loss
- IEC 60793-1-48 Optical fibers – Measurement methods and test procedures – Polarization mode dispersion
- IEC 60793-1-49 Measurement Methods and Test Procedures - Differential Mode Delay
- IEC 60794-2-10 Optical Fiber Cables – Part 2-10 Indoor Cables – Family specification for simplex and duplex cables
- IEC 60794-2-20 Optical Fiber Cables – Part 2-20 Indoor Cables – Family specification for multi-fiber optical cables
- IEC 60794-3-10 Optical Fiber Cables – Part 3-10 Outdoor cables – Family specification for duct, directly buried or lashed aerial optical telecommunication cables
- IEC 60794-3-11 Optical Fiber Cables – Part 3-11 Outdoor Cables – Product specification for duct, directly buried, and lashed aerial cables single-mode optical fiber telecommunications cable
- IEC 61753-021-02 Fiber optic interconnecting devices and passive components – Performance standard – single-mode fiber optic connectors for Category C – Controlled environment
- IEC 61753-022-2 Fiber optic interconnecting devices and passive components – Performance standard – Fiber optic connectors terminated on multimode fiber for category C – Controlled environment
- IEC 61753-021-3 Fiber optic interconnecting devices and passive components Performance standard – single-mode fiber optic connectors for Category U – Uncontrolled environment
- IEC 61753-031-2 Fiber optic interconnecting devices and passive components – Performance standard – Non-connectorized single-mode 1×N and 2×N non-wavelength - selective branching devices for Category C – Controlled environment
- IEC 61753-031-3 Fiber optic interconnecting devices and passive components – Performance standard – Non-connectorized single-mode 1×N and 2×N non-wavelength-selective branching devices for Category U – Uncontrolled environment
- ISO 24581 Road vehicles — General requirements and test methods of in-vehicle optical harnesses for up to 100 Gbit/s communication
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