{"title":"Fiber management on a printed circuit board: Ensuring long-term reliability","authors":"J. Lauzon, Ed Talbot, N. Bélanger, L. Leduc","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661605","url":null,"abstract":"Fiber optics electro-optic receivers, lasers and transceivers are now being deployed on state-of-the-art jet fighters for different sensor and control applications, creating more intelligent aircrafts. These components offer larger information transmission capacities, deployment flexibility for a low weight and power consumption, as well as being immune to electromagnetic interference and lightning, if they are properly designed [1]. These same fiber optics components are being considered for larger deployment in the avionics field. There is a normal concern from avionics applications engineer to introduce optical fiber components in aircrafts circuitry, especially since these components have to be integrated to electronics printed-circuit boards (PCB). The optical fiber technology is associated to the introduction of some specific manipulation and maintenance processes that require a certain learning curve. This paper will show that once the training process is completed, if the proper fiber management design is implemented, fiber optics electro-optics components can be integrated to aircrafts without affecting the long-term reliability, deployment and maintenance cost of the sensor and control systems.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125945531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New perspectives: Precision cleaning direct contact and expanded beam fiber optic connections","authors":"E. J. Forrest","doi":"10.1109/avfop.2013.6661608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/avfop.2013.6661608","url":null,"abstract":"There are five zones in most direct connect and three zones in the expanded beam fiber optic connection. Myriad debris and contamination types influence capacity and speed as removal approaches first time capability.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126707703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}