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-3:2011)
Cartes à circuits optiques - Partie 3: Normes de performance - Généralités et guide (IEC
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EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 62496-3
NORME EUROPÉENNE
February 2011
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 33.180.01
English version
Optical circuit boards -
Part 3: Performance standards -
General and guidance
(IEC 62496-3:2011)
Cartes à circuits optiques -  Optische Leiterplatten -
Partie 3: Normes de performance - Teil 3: Betriebsverhalten -
Généralités et guide Allgemeines und Leitfaden
(CEI 62496-3:2011) (IEC 62496-3:2011)

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2011-02-16. CENELEC members are bound to comply
with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard
the status of a national standard without any alteration.

Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on
application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member.

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Ref. No. EN 62496-3:2011 E
Foreword
The text of document 86/380/FDIS, future edition 1 of IEC 62496-3, prepared by IEC TC 86, Fibre optics,
was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and was approved by CENELEC as EN 62496-3 on
2011-02-16.
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
(dop) 2011-11-16
national standard or by endorsement
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
(dow) 2014-02-16
with the EN have to be withdrawn
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62496-3:2011 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 60068-2-27 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60068-2-27.
IEC 60068-2-32 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60068-2-32.
IEC 61300 series NOTE  Harmonized in EN 61300 series (not modified).
IEC 61751 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 61751.
IEC 62005 series NOTE  Harmonized in EN 62005 series (not modified).
IEC 60529 NOTE  Harmonized as EN 60529.
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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 61300-2-18 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices and EN 61300-2-18 -
passive components - Basic test and
measurement procedures -
Part 2-18: Tests - Dry heat - High temperature
endurance
IEC 61300-2-19 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices and EN 61300-2-19 -
passive components - Basic test and
measurement procedures -
Part 2-19: Tests - Damp heat (steady state)

IEC 61300-2-22 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices and EN 61300-2-22 -
passive components - Basic test and
measurement procedures -
Part 2-22: Tests - Change of temperature

IEC 61753-1 - Fibre optic interconnecting devices and EN 61753-1 -
passive components performance standard -
Part 1: General and guidance for performance
standards
IEC 62496-3 ®
Edition 1.0 2011-01
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
Optical circuit boards –
Part 3: Performance standards – General and guidance

Cartes à circuits optiques –
Partie 3: Normes de performance – Généralités et guide

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
COMMISSION
ELECTROTECHNIQUE
PRICE CODE
INTERNATIONALE
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CODE PRIX
ICS 33.180.01 ISBN 978-2-88912-315-5
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CONTENTS
FOREW ORD . 3
INTRODUCTION . 5
1 Sc o pe . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 6
4 Preparation of a performance standard . 7
4.1 Ge n eral . 7
4.2 Product definition . 7
4.3 Tests . 7
4.4 Details . 8
4.5 Requirements . 8
4.6 Sample size . 8
4.7 Groupings/sequences . 8
4.8 Pass/fail criteria . 8
4.9 Reference product definition. 8
4.10 Performance standard test report . 8
Annex A (normative) Tests and severities for performance standards. 9
Bibliography . 11

Table A.1 – General operating service environments and definitions . 9
Table A.2 – Category C – Controlled environment (Flexible optical circuit boards using
optical glass fibres) . 9
Table A.3 – Category C – Controlled environment (Optical circuit boards using optical
waveguides) . 10

62496-3 Ó IEC:2011 – 3 –
INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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OPTICAL CIRCUIT BOARDS –
Part 3: Performance standards –
General and guidance
FOREWORD
1) The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a worldwide organization for standardization comprising
all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of IEC is to promote
international co-operation on all questions concerning standardization in the electrical and electronic fields. To
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agreement between the two organizations.
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3) IEC Publications have the form of recommendations for international use and are accepted by IEC National
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between any IEC Publication and the corresponding national or regional publication shall be clearly indicated in
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8) Attention is drawn to the Normative references cited in this publication. Use of the referenced publications is
indispensable for the correct application of this publication.
9) Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this IEC Publication may be the subject of
patent rights. IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
International Standard IEC 62496-3 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 86: Fibre
optics.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
86/380/FDIS 86/387/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.
This publication has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.

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A list of all the parts in the IEC 62496 series, under the general title Optical circuit boards,
can be found on the IEC website.
The committee has decided that the contents of this publication will remain unchanged until
the stability date indicated on the IEC web site under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data
related to the specific publication. At this date, the publication will be
• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.
62496-3 Ó IEC:2011 – 5 –
INTRODUCTION
Performance standards define standard electro-optical performance under a set of prescribed
conditions and contain a series or a set of tests and measurements (which may or may not be
grouped into a specific schedule) with clearly defined conditions, severities and pass/fail
criteria. The tests are intended to be run as an initial design verification to prove the product’s
ability to satisfy the requirements of a specific application, market sector or user group.
The following clauses in this part of IEC 62496 contain those sets of performance criteria that
have been standardized for international use. A product that has been shown to meet all the
requirements of a performance standard may be declared as complying with that performance
standard.
Products from one manufacturer that are tested to a performance standard will operate
together within the bounds of the criteria set by the performance standard. There is however
no guarantee that products from different suppliers having the same standard inte
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