Title
Passive optical components: from degradation data to reliability assessment – preliminary results
Abstract
The past decade has seen a huge increase of demand for fast data communication; this urged the optical research towards the design and development of both terrestrial and submerged long-haul full-optical transmission systems. More specifically, the submarine systems are required to be highly reliable: minimum lifetime of 25 years with very low maintenance, which implies the request for long term reliability for each component. In this work a reliability estimation approach based on hi-rel optical component degradation study is presented. Preliminary results of a long-term test performed on optical isolators for submarine applications are reported. The experimental optical bench set-up, based on switching matrixes, developed at Pirelli Reliability Labs is also shown. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1016/S0026-2714(02)00145-2
Microelectronics Reliability
Field
DocType
Volume
Intra-rater reliability,Degradation (geology),Engineering,Reliability engineering
Journal
42
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
0026-2714
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
T. Tomasi111.64
I. De Munari221.43
V. Lista311.64
L. Gherardi411.64
A. Righetti511.64
M. Villa611.64