Chapter 12

Manufacturing Challenges

Eric Maass,     Motorola, Incorporated, Tempe, Arizona 85284

12.1. Customer Requirements — Trends

The manufacturing challenges faced by optoelectronics components and systems are the direct effect of the technology challenges posed, which are in turn the indirect result of customer needs and expectations. These needs include performance (principally data rate and distance), reliability, service, and price.

12.1.1. PERFORMANCE

With the increasing speeds of hardware, such as microprocessors, and the increasing expectations of the users to include realistic video and user friendliness in the software or information communicated comes a need for increasing data rates on the interconnects from, to, and within ...

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