High Reliability (hi-rel) Components are deployed in environments such as undersea and space, where the costs of component replacement are prohibitive. Gooch & Housego is established as a supplier of these components to major undersea equipment manufacturers.
G&H’s hi-rel capability is built upon the foundation of a long established history of manufacturing very reliable terrestrial components. Full facilities are available to carry out customer-specific hi-rel qualification programmes, which can consist of accelerated ageing and Weibull analysis.
Manufacturing is carried out on speciallydeveloped workstations. Advanced fibre management, in-process screening and customerspecific validation tests are implemented, to further enhance component reliability.
Component types available include fused fibre couplers, tap couplers and wavelength division multiplexers. The ultra-low loss of G&H fused fibre components helps to promote low noise figure and improved system margin in undersea transmission systems.
Components are supplied in regular (bare fibre) or custom housings, depending on the installation environment.
Key Features
・Established hi-rel supplier
・High performance
・Full qualification facilities available
・Advanced in-process testing
・Ultra-low loss fused components
・Choice of housings
・Design standard 0.1FITs (failure in 1 billion field hours)
