A 2 km Optical Fiber Communication Trial

Author

Nicol, Donald R. ; Harvey, James T. ; Svoboda, Vladimir ; Donaghy, Francis A. ; Storey, Charles H. ; Ballinger, Kenneth R.

Author_Institution

Amalgamated Wireles Limited Research Lab., Australia

Volume

26

Issue

7

fYear

1978

fDate

7/1/1978 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1061

Lastpage

1067

Abstract

This paper describes a recent field trial of an optical fiber communication link. The fixed point-to-point full duplex link used low loss multi-mode fibers fabricated by the CVD process in a simple cable structure. Fiber loss was approximately 4 dB/km before cabling and up to 7 dB/km after cabling. Digital 5 Mbit/s throughput TDM terminals were used to multiplex a variety of signal sources, including voice and data onto the fibers. Cabled fiber losses over 2.3 km were low enough to permit the use of incoherent infrared LED´s as sources and silicon PIN photodiodes as receivers. ´Vee´ groove splices were employed to connect fibers in the field. Installation was by standard cable laying techniques and no special problems were encountered.

Keywords

Optical fiber communication; Australia; Coaxial cables; Communication cables; Glass; Optical fiber cables; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber losses; Optical fibers; Optical receivers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCOM.1978.1094173

Filename

1094173