Passive optical components: from degradation data to reliability assessment

Tiziana Tomasi; Ilaria De Munari; Valeria Lista; Marco Villa

doi:10.1117/12.468290

30 April 2003 Passive optical components: from degradation data to reliability assessment

Tiziana Tomasi, Ilaria De Munari, Valeria Lista, Marco Villa

Proceedings Volume 4940, Reliability of Optical Fiber Components, Devices, Systems, and Networks; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.468290
Event: Photonics Fabrication Europe, 2002, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

The past decade has seen a huge increase of demand for fast data communication; this stimulated 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 discussed. 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 presented.

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Tiziana Tomasi, Ilaria De Munari, Valeria Lista, and Marco Villa "Passive optical components: from degradation data to reliability assessment", Proc. SPIE 4940, Reliability of Optical Fiber Components, Devices, Systems, and Networks, (30 April 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.468290

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