Acta Optica Sinica, Volume. 30, Issue 10, 3044(2010)
Reliability Assessment of Superluminescent Diodes from Performance Degradation Data
As the most important and fragile part of fiber optic gyroscopes (FOG), the reliabiliey of superluminescent diodes (SLD) determines the operational reliability and maintenance expenses of FOGs. Reliability of SLDs is studied based on degradation data for their long life characteristics. Based on analysis of degradation mechanisms of SLDs under environmental stress firstly, normal-poisson hybrid stochastic process model is presented as their life distribution model whose parameters can be estimated from the degradation measures of the SLDs. The proposed method can obtain SLDs′ reliability without failure data, therefore overcomes the drawbacks of traditional time-to-failure analysis method which requires failure data. This estimation method shows its significance in test costs and time.
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Chao Daihong, Ma Jing, Zhang Chunxi. Reliability Assessment of Superluminescent Diodes from Performance Degradation Data[J]. Acta Optica Sinica, 2010, 30(10): 3044
Category: Optical Devices
Received: Jan. 12, 2010
Accepted: --
Published Online: Oct. 24, 2012
The Author Email: Daihong Chao (daihongchao@vip.sina.com)