Generic Reliability Assurance Requirements for Optoelectronic Devices Used in Telecommunications

ABSTRACT: Optoelectronic devices are the backbone of the optical fiber industry. These devices include lasers, light emitting diodes, photo detectors, and modulators, and are key components used in telecommunications equipment such as:

• Asynchronous and synchronous fiber optic terminal and add-drop multiplexers
• Digital cross-connect systems
• Optical amplifiers
• Universal or integrated digital cross-connect systems
• Fiber-In-The-Loop systems.

• Criteria related to qualification testing, reliability, or accelerated aging testing, and lot-to-lot controls has been consolidated to highlight commonalities and differences between the tests and procedures that apply to various devices and levels of devices.
• An expanded scope of the document, and revised definitions of device levels
• New material added on tunable lasers and optoelectronic receivers
• Removal of objectives that indicated specific performance parameters, and various tables that listed those parameters consolidated into a single table.
• A defined set of operational shock and vibration conditions.