Title :
Reliability of glass-ceramic ferrules in the severest conditions
Author :
Mitachi, S. ; Yonekawa, N. ; Shioda, M. ; Nakajima, S. ; Takeuchi, H.
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Eng., Tokyo Univ. of Technol., Japan
Abstract :
In this paper, specially assembled connectors concatenated were tested under long term reliability tests by polishing ferrules endface as just exceeding the border value of the above proposed parameters. The proposed dimensions were experimentally verified. Water immersion tests done for both GCF-using connectors and ZrF-using connectors showed that GCF is highly reliable in the severest outside conditions like FTTH.
Keywords :
environmental factors; glass ceramics; optical fibres; optical interconnections; polishing; reliability; GCF-using connectors; ZrF; ZrF-using connectors; ferrules endface; glass-ceramic ferrules; reliability tests; water immersion test; Assembly; Concatenated codes; Connectors; Educational institutions; Glass; Humidity; Insertion loss; Optical fiber testing; RNA; Temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363409
