Multifunctional Composites with Integrated Optical Busses for Data and Sensing Applications

Abstract

Embedded communication busses are being widely investigated for complex composite structures such as military vehicles and advanced civil structures. The major difficulty with such busses is coupling external devices to embedded optical and electrical cables at ingress/egress points because physical connectors are awkward and prone to mechanical failure. In this work we present several techniques for normal incidence free-space optical data porting. These techniques are used to develop and demonstrate an integrated structural optical communication bus.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481743

Entities

People

  • D. J. O'brien
  • Eric D. Wetzel
  • K. W. Goossen
  • M. Tietelbaum
  • N. D. Wells
  • S. Yarlagadda

Organizations

  • University of Delaware

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Systems
  • Composite Materials
  • Connectors
  • Couplings
  • Data Transmission
  • Detectors
  • Engineering
  • Fibers
  • Lasers
  • Light Sources
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Materials Processing
  • Optical Communications
  • Optical Fibers
  • Resins
  • Vehicles

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Optical Fiber Sensing and Electromagnetic Propagation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space