Bidirectional Fiber Optic Cable Adapter.

Abstract

The technical objective of the BIFOCS program was to develop, build, and test a full-duplex single fiber, fiber optic link, operating in the 1.0 micron to 1.6 micron region, capable of transmitting 20 Mb/s data (10 to the -9th power BER) over a range of at least 10 km, with a goal of 15 km. The link MTBF goal was 5 X 10 to the 3rd power hours and operation over a temperature range of 0 deg C to 50 deg C. The fiber optic cable consisted of sections not exceeding 2 km in length joined by commercially available dry fiber optic connectors. The system performed successfully at ambient temperature over 15 km of cable. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA133371

Entities

People

  • M. Linehan
  • N. B. Gee
  • Rebekah T. Taylor

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplifiers
  • Automatic Gain Control
  • Cable Assemblies
  • Connectors
  • Detectors
  • Electronics
  • Electronics Laboratories
  • Films
  • Frequency
  • Gain
  • Insertion Loss
  • Laser Diodes
  • Lasers
  • Losses
  • Measurement
  • Optical Fibers
  • Plastic Explosives

Readers

  • Electrical Engineering
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.