PD IEC/TR 62627-05:2013

This standard PD IEC/TR 62627-05:2013 Fibre optic interconnecting devices and passive components is classified in these ICS categories:

• 33.180.20 Fibre optic interconnecting devices

This part of IEC 62627, which is a technical report, summarizes the extensive industry research on development of cleanliness specifications for single-mode (SM) and multimode (MM) connectors.

The summary of the result shows Table 1.

Table 1 – Summary of the result

Samples		Scratch/Contamination/Defect	A/RL	Clause	Reference
SM/MM	Single-fibre/multi-fibre
SM PC	Single-fibre	Scratch	RL	3	[1], [5], [6]
MM PC	Single-fibre	Scratch	RL	4	[7]
SM PC	Single-fibre	Contamination	A and RL	5	[2], [6]. [8]
SM APC	Single-fibre	Contamination	A	7	[11]
SM APC	Single-fibre	Scratch	RL	7.2	[11]
SM	APC Multi-fibre	Contamination	A and RL	8	[12]