{"title":"Fiber optics for use in air and space harsh environments","authors":"R. Pirich","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082098","url":null,"abstract":"The aerospace industry has made great strides in recent years deploying fiber optics and photonics technologies on commercial and military platforms which must operate in harsh environments. This trend will continue to grow as avionics fiber-optic system architectures, networking schemes, and components evolve and mature. In parallel with data and video transmission, photonics technology for analog/RF, flight control, freespace communication, and vehicle monitoring applications will have an increasing role for future aerospace platforms.","PeriodicalId":174592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115684856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Performance modeling and analytical verification of POF transmissive star couplers for avionics system applications","authors":"D. Richards, N. Antoniades, T. K. Truong","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082135","url":null,"abstract":"We discuss the performance modeling of transmissive star couplers based on plastic optical fibers which are designed for avionics system applications. Simulation is based on a commercial software tool where the concept of supermodes is introduced. Results are validated using an analysis which expands on prior work based on multimode couplers in polymers.","PeriodicalId":174592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127102184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Mahnkopf, M. Harris, S. Lanka, K. Kleven, V. Koleva, Z. Clark, D. Louderback
{"title":"Coarse wavelength division multiplexed multimode transceiver technology for avionics applications","authors":"S. Mahnkopf, M. Harris, S. Lanka, K. Kleven, V. Koleva, Z. Clark, D. Louderback","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082109","url":null,"abstract":"A coarse wavelength division multiplexed transceiver technology for avionics applications is presented. The transceiver is capable of transmitting data at an aggregate data rate of 40 Gbps over a single multimode fiber for transmit and receive, respectively.","PeriodicalId":174592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124596282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Yu, W. Chang, J. Bloch, Dingbo Chen, Wenyi Rai, Dong‐Soo Shin, D. C. Scott, N. Chen, S. B. Chen
{"title":"Photodetectors for analog applications","authors":"P. Yu, W. Chang, J. Bloch, Dingbo Chen, Wenyi Rai, Dong‐Soo Shin, D. C. Scott, N. Chen, S. B. Chen","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082142","url":null,"abstract":"The small size, light weight and low cost are main advantages of analog fiber links over coax links. In particular, analog fiber link is examined for photonic antenna (see Fig. 1) operating at high center frequencies in which a high power photodiode is deployed close to the antenna for downlink broadcasting [1]. High power and high output third order intercept point (OIP3) are among critical photodiode requirements in such application.","PeriodicalId":174592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121548799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Morton, J. Cardenas, C. Poitras, J. Khurgin, M. Lipson
{"title":"Practical silicon photonics True-Time-Delay devices for phased array systems","authors":"P. Morton, J. Cardenas, C. Poitras, J. Khurgin, M. Lipson","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082152","url":null,"abstract":"Using the Balanced SCISSOR scheme, together with balanced thermal tuning, microresonator based silicon photonics devices were shown to provide a large tunable delay of 345ps, with broad bandwidth and low distortion. These practical devices will find many applications for use in phased array systems.","PeriodicalId":174592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127936848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simultaneous optical phase and intesnity modulation for analog signal processing","authors":"V. Urick, J. McKinney, J. Diehl, J. Singley","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082115","url":null,"abstract":"Photonic processing of radio-frequency (RF) signals provides an attractive alternative to all-electrical processing due to increased bandwidth and scalability of the former. One particularly elusive capability for electronic warfare applications is wideband (near DC to > 100 GHz) RF energy detection achievable in a short timeframe [O(s)] with high resolution (< 500 MHz). A photonic approach to this end is to encode RF energy onto an optical carrier and then conduct wideband down conversion and/or channelization via optical or microwave-photonic filters [1]. Some unresolved issues with this straightforward approach are realizing narrow pass bands (narrow 3-dB bandwidth, BW3dB) over large processing bandwidths (large free-spectral range, FSR) with high sensitivity (high off-resonance rejection and low on-resonance insertion loss). However, there has been recent interest in photonic-assisted instantaneous frequency measurement (IFM) where post-filter processing allows for frequency resolution well below the filter BW3dB [2]–[8]. In this work, we discuss various IFM techniques and suggest new signal processing architectures based on simultaneous optical phase and intensity modulation.","PeriodicalId":174592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133938069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Proudley, N. Brownjohn, J. Baptista, A. Bacou, H. Salgado, A. Clausen, P. Deimel, M. Farries, S. Gauchy, I. Kopacek, A. Lee, B. Napier, M. Traversone, J. Vincent, A. Zimmermann
{"title":"Developing aircraft photonic networks - An overview of the european daphne project","authors":"G. Proudley, N. Brownjohn, J. Baptista, A. Bacou, H. Salgado, A. Clausen, P. Deimel, M. Farries, S. Gauchy, I. Kopacek, A. Lee, B. Napier, M. Traversone, J. Vincent, A. Zimmermann","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082097","url":null,"abstract":"DAPHNE (Developing Aircraft PHotonic NEtworks) is a 3-year European FP7 project (started September 2009). The aim of DAPHNE is to exploit terrestrial optical networking technology (with associated performance advantages) in future aircraft and systems. The consortium comprises fifteen partners (from seven nations) ranging from major air framers (both fixed and rotary wing) through component and equipment manufacturers and leading European universities. The project is coordinated by Airbus.","PeriodicalId":174592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference","volume":"204 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117131870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Satellite optical backplane","authors":"D. Drury","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082105","url":null,"abstract":"Our research has investigated a number of options for creating an Optical Backplane that meets the future needs of high bandwidth satellites and air platforms. We propose a low power, highly scalable CWDM based architecture based on a passive optical core and intelligent ASIM modules that can provide system capacity of over 1.6 Tbps and has the potential to provide a unified satellite or airframe wide infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":174592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129119451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All-fiber widely-tunable transmitter for remote sensing in short-wave infrared band","authors":"S. Moro, N. Alic, N. Usechak, S. Radic","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082145","url":null,"abstract":"An all-fiber, tunable, short-wave infrared transmitter is demonstrated using efficient four-wave mixing in conventional L and O telecom bands. The source was subsequently used to detect trace levels of carbon dioxide in 2051-nm spectral region.","PeriodicalId":174592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132048409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Terabit optical Ethernet for avionics","authors":"D. Blumenthal","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2011.6082127","url":null,"abstract":"Avionics platforms can benefit enormously by using standard communications protocols like Ethernet, in terms of cost and power efficiency. The performance of future aviation communications networks will be required to handle aircraft functions as well as potentially massive data collection, storage, retrieval and processing. The bisectional bandwidth of future avionics platforms could easily exceed Petabytes with video based applications and possibly reach the capacity of small data centers. The performance requirements for these systems will be latency and throughout. since avionics platforms have the potential to advance on a different standards track than terrestrial systems, Terabit Ethernet could become a reality before the terrestrial standards bodies move from 400 Gigabit per second Ethernet to Terabit. Another potentially powerful driver for Terabit Ethernet is that the reach on airframes is relatively short and Terabit transmission impairments not as critical.","PeriodicalId":174592,"journal":{"name":"2011 IEEE Avionics, Fiber- Optics and Photonics Technology Conference","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127893950","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}