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Lifetime predictions for optical fibers

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Abstract

As telecommunications applications of optical fibers have broadened from long-haul to trunking and, more recently, to local loops, it has become apparent that fibers are becoming a universal guided medium for information transport. Other types of guided media, such as open-wire, paired cable, coaxial cable, and waveguides, will likely be replaced by fiber in the future. Not since the early days of telecommunications over open-wire will a single guided transmission medium be so dominant. Such a status carries with it a concomitant requirement for high reliability and long lifetimes.1 There is also a growing demand from fiber system designers and from users of fiber systems for quantitative predictions of reliability and lifetime.

© 1991 Optical Society of America

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