Lifetest of semiconductor lasers used as light source in fiber-optic communications is described in detail.DC-PBH lasers were used for our experiment
which undertook the high temperature atmospherewith high stress to accelarate the lifetest. No random failure phenomena were observed throughout the experiment. According to the results from the experiment
the lasers’extrapolated MTTF is 2.6×10
5
hrs(σ=1.06) and failure rate λ(t) vs. time t relations are also given for the purpose of the engineering design of fiber-optic communications.