Optical two-way communication system for vehicles using lasers and corner cubes

Author

Tsumura, Toshihim ; Okubo, Hiroshi ; Komatsu, Nobuo ; Aoki, Nobuya

Author_Institution

Osaka Inst. of Technol., Japan

fYear

1995

fDate

30 Jul-2Aug 1995

Firstpage

535

Lastpage

538

Abstract

This paper presents a new two-way data communication system for road vehicle control using laser beams and corner cubes. This system shows good performance for data communication between vehicles on the road or between vehicles and terminals over the road. This system uses laser transceivers and respondent devices to realize two-way communication. The respondent device consists of laser receivers and optical modulators using corner cube prisms and piezoelectric cells. The operation principle of this system is confirmed by experiments

Keywords

laser beam applications; optical communication; optical prisms; optical receivers; optical transmitters; road traffic; telecommunication computing; telecontrol; traffic control; traffic information systems; corner cube prisms; laser beams; laser transceivers; operating principle; optical modulators; optical two-way data communication; piezoelectric cells; respondent devices; road traffic management; Communication system control; Control systems; Data communication; Laser beams; Optical control; Optical devices; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Road vehicles; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems Conference, 1995. Proceedings. In conjunction with the Pacific Rim TransTech Conference. 6th International VNIS. 'A Ride into the Future'

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2587-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VNIS.1995.518889

Filename

518889