High Bandwidth Microwave Communication System for Testing HPM Resistant Optical Interconnects
Abstract
We propose to develop a high~bandwidth testing system in order to investigate HPMeffects in optical interconnects. The system will be composed of a bit error tester,electrical pulse generator, optical receiver, and a pulsed laser system. The bit error ratetester and pulse generator will enable us to drive optical interconnects with highbandwidth data streams and perform crucial diagnostics including bit error rates, timejitter, and latency. We will use the optical receiver to convert signal from optical toelectronic domain for processing. In addition, we will develop a pulsed laserreflectivity measurement system that will enable us to probe HPM effects on thetimescales of 200 fs to 5 ps. These timescales are extremely difficult to accesselectronically but lie well within the frequency range of HPM generators.Understanding HPM effects at these timescales is therefore highly important formitigating HPM interference. The requested equipment will significantly augment ourability to study HPM effects in optical interconnects, and will give us access to spectralregimes that are very difficult to study using our current system. It will support ourONR funded program for HPM resistant optical interconnects (grant numberN0000141410612), and the newly established AFOSR Center of Excellence on the Scienceof Electronics in Extreme Electromagnetic Environments. This DURIP will also play acrucial role in providing essential equipment for graduate and undergraduate studentsto perform research. In addition, our work will have strong overlap with the mission ofsurrounding research labs including ARL, NRL, LPS, and NIST which are all in closeproximity to the University of Maryland. We will make our facilities available toresearch activities in these labs and believe it will help foster a strong researchcollaboration between our respective institutes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141612652
Entities
People
- Edo Waks
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Maryland