Rec. ITU-T G.652 (03/1993) � CHARACTERISTICS OF A SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBRE CABLE
FOREWORD
CONTENTS
1 Fibre characteristics
    1.1 Mode field diameter
    1.2 Cladding diameter
    1.3 Mode field concentricity error
    1.4 Non-circularity
    1.5 Cut-off wavelength
    1.6 1550 nm loss performance
    1.7 Material properties of the fibre
    1.8 Refractive index profile
    1.9 Longitudinal uniformity
    1.10 Examples of fibre design guidelines
2 Factory length specifications
    2.1 Attenuation coefficient
    2.2 Chromatic dispersion coefficient
3 Elementary cable sections
    3.1 Attenuation
    3.2 Chromatic dispersion
Appendix I � Spectral attenuation modelling
Appendix II � Example of the matrix model