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Fiber Optics Engineering

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Reliability is a critical concern in all engineering systems. Reliability issues present significant challenges to the designers, because usually it is hard to predict them in advance. As a result, oftentimes problems associated with reliability show up later in the design phase. Moreover, the inherent statistical nature of failures makes them harder to understand and deal with. From an economic perspective, reliability issues are often very expensive, because they expose problems late in the design phase, or even when the systems are deployed and are under normal operation. Such failures may require costly and time consuming maintenance, debugging, or recalls.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The implicit assumption is that the output function (in our example P(V S , T)) varies monotonously in the space S or S′. Usually, this is a reasonable assumption.

  2. 2.

    One g is the acceleration of a free falling body near earth and is equal to 9.8 m/s.

  3. 3.

    This is the mechanical version of the Fourier uncertainty principle discussed in Chapter 3.

  4. 4.

    See Chapter 12 for more details on the SFF-8472 requirements.

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Azadeh, M. (2009). Reliability. In: Fiber Optics Engineering. Optical Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0304-4_10

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