Optical fiber interconnect: standards, procurement, lesson learned and future applications

Abstract

The ESCC has published new optical fiber connectors standards destined to simplify procurement of such components. A summary presentation is given, but more importantly, how to use them, the lesson learned from Diamond's perspective is presented. The latter cover the fiber lot management, the radiation and a few other parameters necessary for projects.Three main application categories are presented: A) Generic-Sensing, B) Satellite external communication, C) Satellite internal communication. Their products range and covered solution is presented, with potential new development proposedThe Basic Specification purpose is to define the tests necessary to find the failure modes in various environments (temperature, vibration, vacuum, etc.) and to derive the qualification specification.Any new configuration variant changing enough the product might have to be submitted to all or a portion of the tests described in this standards.All new product should be submitted to the entire program, with the same scope in mind: finding failure modes.