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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics

Long-Term Reliability of Plastic Split Alignment Sleeves for Single-Mode Fiber-Optic Connectors

Yoshito SHUTO, Hirotsugu SATO, Shuichi YANAGI, Masayoshi OHNO, Shin SUMIDA, Shunichi TOHNO

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We examined the creep properties and hazard rates of plastic split alignment sleeves to ensure the long-term reliablity of optical fiber connections. It required a gauge retention force Fr of more than 200 gf to suppress the fluctuation in the insertion loss of a plastic sleeve. From the fluctuation data, we estimated the time-to-failure tf at which the Fr value became 200 gf. We estimated the acceleration parameters, median lifetimes ξ, and hazard rates λ by using the tf values based on the Weibull statistics. The ξ values decreased rapidly with increasing temperature and relative humidity. Small λ values of < 0.01 FITs and of 1 FITs were expected for 20 years in a normal atmosphere (25C/50%RH) and in a more severe case of 25C/90%RH or 45C/50%RH.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E84-C No.1 pp.96-101
Publication Date
2001/01/01
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Optoelectronics

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