Reliability qualification of optical connectors

Reliability of components for fiber optic sensors (Invited Paper)

“…An interesting conclusion from a reliability qualification program run on optical connectors by a well-known telecom system manufacturer is that these statistical or random FIT rates cannot be gained from laboratory tests with a justifiable expenditure -but only from field data. 9 A consistent reliability approach has definitely not been systematically applied to all types of optical components and reported in open literature. Together with the limited availability of field data it is therefore very difficult to state numbers of failure rates for every type of optical component that can be used in the fabrication of a fiber optic sensor.…”