Title:：Optical Fiber Interconnects: Physical Design for Reliability
Speaker：Professor E. Suhir
(University of California, Dept. of Electrical Engineering)
Time：10:00 am ，December 10, 2009，(Thursday)
Venue：The conference room on the third floor of Transient Building
ALL WELCOME
Biography
Dr. Suhir is Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (ret), Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Division, Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ. He is currently on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, where he teaches a course “Basics of Electronic Reliability”. He is also Visiting Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD and CEO of the ERS Co LLC (www.ERSuhir.com). Dr. Suhir is Fellow of five leading professional societies: the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Physical Society (APS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). He holds 22 US patents and has authored about 300 technical publications (papers, book chapters, books). Dr. Suhir is BoG Member and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE CPMT Society and is Associate Editor of the IEEE CPMT Transactions on Advanced Packaging. He received many distinguished service and professional awards, including: 2008 Fulbright Fellowship Award in the field of Information and Communication Technologies; 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering; 2001 IMAPS John A. Wagnon Technical Achievement Award for contributions to the technical knowledge of the microelectronics, optoelectronics, and packaging industry; 2000 IEEE-CPMT Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award for contributions to the technologies in fields encompassed by the CPMT Society; 2000 SPE International Engineering/Technology (Fred O. Conley) Award for pioneering contributions to plastics engineering; 1999 ASME and Pi-Tau-Sigma Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to mechanical engineering, and 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award for developing engineering mechanics methods for predicting the reliability, performance, and mechanical behavior of complex structures used in manufacturing Lucent Technologies products.
Abstract
The objective of the seminar is to demonstrate how the concepts, methods and approached of mechanical and reliability engineering could be applied for the analysis and rational physical design of optical fibers and especially optical fiber interconnects. The following major topics are addressed: bending of bare fibers, bare fibers under combined action of bending and axial loading, “pigtailes” in laser packages, bare fibers under combined action of bending and reactive tension, effect of the silica material nonlinear stress-strain relationship, mechanics of coated fibers, coated fiber “strippability”, metalized fibers soldered into ferrules. We will address also a nano-technology based new generation of optical fiber coatings and claddings.