{"title":"A path to realizing high-performance 100-GHz analog links","authors":"C. Cox, E. Ackerman","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661612","url":null,"abstract":"Communications and sensor systems on aircraft and other vehicles would benefit from the development of optical fiber links with low noise figure and high dynamic range over broad bandwidths extending to as high as 100 GHz. To date, however, there have been few reports of analog optical links that include their performance at f > 20 GHz, and the best unamplified noise figure [1] and dynamic range [2] results have been reported at ≤12 GHz. In this paper, we compare several competing link architectures, identify the one with the potential to yield high performance across a broad bandwidth up to 100 GHz, and discuss some of the challenges that must be overcome.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132353261","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}
W. Charczenko, M. Cimolino, G. Abbas, David Moilanen, J. Takayesu, M. Hall, S. Thaniyavarn
{"title":"Wideband modulators and transmitters for analog fiber optic links","authors":"W. Charczenko, M. Cimolino, G. Abbas, David Moilanen, J. Takayesu, M. Hall, S. Thaniyavarn","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661613","url":null,"abstract":"The replacement of coaxial cable with single mode fiber on various airborne platforms has a number of advantages. The use of fiber optic cable, in addition to reducing the size, weight, and cross section of the point to point links, offers greater immunity to electromagnetic interference with less required shielding. Currently, shielded coaxial cable is being used in analog links for transmitting local oscillator signals, and to send various received antenna signals to banks of RF receiver's onboard aircraft. Although the physical length of these transmission lines are less than a few dozen meters, their stringent RF requirements require the use of unique photonic components that are not typically used in digital telecommunications fiber optic links. In this presentation, EOSPACE will show a new generation of modulators and their integration into small form factor transmitters for use in high dynamic range analog fiber optic links. Currently most RF links are operating at various frequency bands from 10kHz to approximately 20 GHz. In anticipation of future systems, EOSPACE is also working on extending the wideband operation of these modulators out to 110 GHz.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128348128","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}
A. Nikolov, Dustin Guenther, W. Liu, R. Cendejas, R. Dutt
{"title":"Advancements and challenges for photonic components for avionic interconnects","authors":"A. Nikolov, Dustin Guenther, W. Liu, R. Cendejas, R. Dutt","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661595","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661595","url":null,"abstract":"We have designed and fabricated ultra-low noise, high power laser source and high dynamic range receiver for RF over fiber. Links with Noise Figure of less than 5dB have been measured and dynamic range dependence on link gain investigated. RF optical links were tested successfully in an ESM system.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131761889","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}
J. M. B. Oliveira, Luís M. Pessoa, Henrique M. Salgado, G. Proudley, D. W. Charlton, Henry White
{"title":"Experimental evaluation of a differential GPS-over-fiber system for aircraft attitude determination","authors":"J. M. B. Oliveira, Luís M. Pessoa, Henrique M. Salgado, G. Proudley, D. W. Charlton, Henry White","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661586","url":null,"abstract":"We have presented a complete GPS-over-fiber system for aircraft attitude determination. The main conclusions are that in order to a achieve a fix of phase ambiguities in a time slot of 50 s, the maximum optical attenuation of the Base path must be less than 12 dB and that in a WDM system, the maximum optical power of a baseband signal must be below -16 dBm.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129872295","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":"Portable fiber optic cable processing for avionics","authors":"A. Christopher, G. Ciolfi","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661594","url":null,"abstract":"As fiber optics becomes more ubiquitous through military platforms, the cable plant repair and maintenance processes have become more critical to maximize platform readiness. However, fiber optics presents many challenges for service personnel due to the complexity of the termination and polishing processes required. Traditional methods are highly manual and require high skill levels to perform adequately.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"212 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123018972","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":"Feasibility of high-speed transparent photonic links in airborne free-space optical communication","authors":"Kai-Daniel Buchter, A. Sizmann","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661602","url":null,"abstract":"Photonic high-capacity links have been identified as a key technology to meet future bandwidth requirement for airborne communication networks (ACNs), which is mainly driven by the increasing variety and volume of personal mobile applications and the demand for ubiquitous internet access. Today, the airline industry embraces SatCom, or cellular radio on continental routes, trying to keep up with the proliferation of wireless services. Airborne networking for large bandwidth over geographic distances has been envisioned as well. We see hybrid RF-optical networks as promising, with three key elements: agile free-space optical (FSO) high-capacity backbone and directive RF links for aircraft to participate with short-range limited-bandwidth capability, and high-altitude platforms (HAPs) as relay stations for permanent ACN-to-ground internet connectivity under all weather conditions.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126840435","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":"Nanophotonics technology and applications","authors":"Y. Fainman","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661623","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661623","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the role of nanotechnology with focus on nanophotonics in dielectric, metal, and semiconductor inhomogeneous composition materials, devices and subsystems for optical communications, information and signal processing, and sensing.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"114 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123406793","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":"Power saving technique suitable for DWDM-PON on aircraft","authors":"E. Murphy, C. Michie, H. White, W. Johnstone","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661603","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661603","url":null,"abstract":"Growth in demand for high bandwidth sensors and real time video capture on aircraft has stimulated a need for high data capacity avionic communications networks. Implementing a communications network to accommodate such traffic using Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) components is highly desirable since this allows the avionics sector to benefit from the economies of scale associated with the telecommunications marketplace. Fibre optic based communications are ideally positioned to address these needs and ensure that communications networks are protected against future demands for increasing bandwidth. To take advantage of COTS components the aircraft networks can look to exploit components and techniques used in local access networks. The wavelength-division-multiplexed passive optical network (WDM-PON) is being considered as the next step towards a simple future proofed network, for aircraft networks, arguably the most pressing concern is the power consumption of the network. Recently [1] has analysed the power consumption of critical network components within an optical transmission system. The analysis considered different data rates and many different transmitter/receiver designs. In general it was established that, while there are small savings that can be obtained by optimising the receiver electronics design, a major consideration within the overall power budget of the network was identified as being the power required to drive the optical transmitters. In this paper we theoretically assess a technique using optical amplification to minimise the overall power consumption of optical components forming a WDM-PON in environments representative of those found on aircraft.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131692586","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":"Photonic components and subsystems for Electronic Warfare","authors":"K. Davis, Jordan Gray, A. Stark","doi":"10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AVFOP.2013.6661616","url":null,"abstract":"Given the rapid pace of technology development in the field of Electronic Warfare (EW), a tremendous burden exists in maintaining the survivability of aircraft in a contested electromagnetic (EM) environment. Among forward-looking techniques for addressing that burden, photonics stands out as a versatile technology for mitigating current and future EW challenges.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122666198","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":"Measurement of insertion loss versus fiber recession in fiber optic connectors","authors":"E. Lindmark","doi":"10.1109/avfop.2013.6661610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/avfop.2013.6661610","url":null,"abstract":"A study was commissioned to analyze the effects of optical fiber recession/protrusion inside fiber optic connector and terminus ceramic ferrules. The purpose of fiber optic connectors is to provide a reusable, repeatable, reliable and low optical loss method of joining two separate pieces of optical fiber. In order to achieve these goals, various standards bodies have devised recommendations for the geometry of the polished endface of these connectors including the Spherical Fiber Height [1]. Fiber height is also referred to as fiber recession when the fiber is below the surface of the connector's ceramic ferrule and is typically measured with an optical interferometer specially designed for the purpose of measuring connector endface geometry. A typical acceptable range for fiber height is from -125 to +50 nanometers. The purpose of this study is to examine the optical performance when the Spherical Fiber Height is not within the recommended range.","PeriodicalId":347022,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE Avionics, Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124028837","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}