An investigation of passive optical networks for India based neutrino observatory

Author

Singh, V.P. ; Chandrachoodan, Nitin ; Prabhakar, A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Madras, Chennai, India

fYear

2013

fDate

17-19 Jan. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The India-based neutrino observatory (INO) is being designed with an iron calorimeter (ICAL) as the neutrino detector. The ICAL consist of about 30,000 resistive plate chambers (RPCs) at INO which will act as the neutrino detectors. Each RPC is expected to generate data at a maximum of 2.52 Mbps, which will then be multiplexed further at the backplane. We compare a controller area network against a Passive Star Optical Network (PSON), in terms of technical feasibility, optical link budgets and costs. We then characterize the PSON using a microcontroller based application specific hardware.

Keywords

calorimeters; microcontrollers; multiplexing; neutrino detection; optical links; optical sensors; passive optical networks; ICAL; INO; India based neutrino observatory; PSON; RPC; application specific hardware; controller area network; iron calorimeter; microcontroller; multiplexing; neutrino detector; optical link budget; passive star optical network; resistive plate chamber; Integrated optics; Optical losses; Optical network units; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Passive optical networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Computing and Communication Technologies (CONECCT), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-4609-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CONECCT.2013.6469316

Filename

6469316