The role of the Advanced Air Transportation Technologies program undertaken at the NASA Glenn Research Centers has been focused mainly on the improvement of air transportation safety, with particular emphasis on air transportation communication systems in on-board aircraft. The conventional solutions for digital optical communications systems specifically designed for local metro area networks are, unfortunately, not capable of transporting the microwave and millimeter RF signals used in avionics systems. Optical networks capable of transporting RF signals are substantially different from the standard digital optical communications systems. The objective of this paper is to identify a number of different communication link architectures for RF fiber optic transmission using a single backbone fiber for carrying VHF and UHF RF signals in the aircraft.
Fiber-Optic Communication Links Suitable for On-Board Use in Modern Aircraft
2004
19 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Common Carrier & Satellite , Optics & Lasers , Air Transportation , Avionics , Fiber optics , Communication networks , Aircraft , Optical communication , Data links , Millimeter waves , Wavelength , Mutliplexing , Very high frequencies , Signal to noise ratios , Safety , Rf systems , Air transportation
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