A software defined free space optics (SD-FSO) platform based on an analog optical frontend

Author

Gruber, A. ; Muhammad, S. Sheikh ; Leitgeb, E.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Microwaves & Photonics, Graz Univ. of Technol., Graz, Austria

fYear

2011

fDate

15-17 June 2011

Firstpage

363

Lastpage

366

Abstract

In this concept paper a Free Space Optics (FSO) system based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) technique is being introduced. A hardware platform to implement FSO-Systems which are based on directly modulated light sources and analog optical links has been defined and the major advantages of the software defined architecture were outlined. The software defined radio architecture, when translated to the hardware design of FSO systems, would allow the flexibility of adapting the system to varying weather conditions, thereby increasing the link availability and reliability and hopefully allowing mass deployment.

Keywords

light sources; optical links; optical modulation; software radio; telecommunication network reliability; SD-FSO Platform; SDR technique; analog optical link frontend; light source modulation; link availability; reliability; software defined free space optics platform; software defined radio technique; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical modulation; Optical receivers; Optical signal processing; Optical transmitters; Flexible system architecture; Free-Space Optics (FSO); Laser Diodes (LD); Light Emitting Diodes (LED); Radio Frequency (RF) frontend; Software defined Radios (SDR);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications (ConTEL), Proceedings of the 2011 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-169-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-3-85125-161-6

Type

conf

Filename

5969959