Title :
100 Gb/s photonic integrated circuits with over 1 billion field hours of operation and zero field failures
Author :
Salvatore, R.A. ; Muthiah, R. ; Ziari, M. ; DeMars, S.D. ; Evans, P. ; Murthy, S. ; Khayam, O. ; Pleumeekers, J. ; Strzelecka, E. ; Missey, M. ; Nilsson, A. ; Freeman, P. ; Sande, W. ; Butrie, T. ; Reffle, M. ; Kish, F.A.
Author_Institution :
Infinera, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Abstract :
Reliability data are shown for InP photonic integrated circuits (PICs) comprising 10 channels at 10 Gb/s. Over 1.3 billion hours of field operation has been reached for PIC pairs without any field failures, corresponding to <;0.8 FIT.
Keywords :
III-V semiconductors; indium compounds; integrated optics; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; reliability; FIT; InP; PIC; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; field hours; photonic integrated circuits; reliability; Arrayed waveguide gratings; Integrated optics; Market research; Optical attenuators; Optical feedback; Optical transmitters; Reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2014 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2014.6995210
