Design and characterization of a fiberoptic RF remoting link

Author

Abouzahra, M.D. ; Robey, F.C. ; Henion, S.

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab., MIT, Lexington, MA, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2000

fDate

11-16 June 2000

Firstpage

695

Abstract

This paper describes the design and characterization of a fiber optic link developed to route received RF signals from remotely located S-band telemetry systems to a central processing and recording facility. This fiber optic system demonstrates for the first time the feasibility of linking RF data from multiple antennas via a single fiber and over a nearly 100-km distance. Measured data of key link parameters such as gain, bit-error-rate, crosstalk, phase and gain stability, dynamic range, and noise figure are presented.

Keywords

military communication; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibre telemetry; 100 km; bit-error-rate; central processing/recording facility; crosstalk; dynamic range; fiberoptic RF remoting link; gain stability; link parameters; multiple antennas; noise figure; phase stability; remotely located S-band telemetry systems; Antenna measurements; Gain measurement; Joining processes; Noise measurement; Optical design; Optical fibers; Optical recording; Radio frequency; Signal design; Telemetry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium Digest. 2000 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Boston, MA, USA

ISSN

0149-645X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5687-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2000.863278

Filename

863278