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Improved alignment of fibre‐optics active devices via response surface methodology
Author(s) -
Tan Eric,
Goh T. N.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
quality and reliability engineering international
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1099-1638
pISSN - 0748-8017
DOI - 10.1002/qre.4680060211
Subject(s) - response surface methodology , reliability (semiconductor) , factorial experiment , power (physics) , computer science , coupling (piping) , design of experiments , surface (topology) , factorial , engineering , reliability engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics , machine learning , physics , mathematical analysis , statistics , geometry , quantum mechanics
Response surface methodology (RSM) has long been recognized as an effective approach to empirical optimization of engineering processes. This paper reports a novel application of the methodology to enhance the efficiency and reliability of an active device alignment operation that is critical to fibreoptics manufacturing. With 2 2 factorial designs, the RSM approach has been found capable of locating the optimum co‐ordinates for maximum power coupling at speeds more than three times those of the usual search algorithms.