Estimation of system reliability for uncooled optical transmitters using system reliability function

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1067-1071

  Yoon, Hyun Jae ^a,b   Chung, Nack Jin ^b   Choi, Min Ho ^b   Park, In Shik ^b   Jeong, Jichai ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

^b LG   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FUNCTIONS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PHOTODIODES; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TRANSMITTERS;

MEAN TIME-TO-FAILURE (MTTF) ANALYSIS; OPTICAL TRANSMITTERS; PROBABILITY PLOTTING METHOD;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 0032641073     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.769309     Document Type: Article

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