Extended temperature characterization of COTS bi-directional (BiDi) transceivers for avionics applications

Author

Chan, Eric

Author_Institution

Boeing Phantom Works, Seattle, WA, USA

fYear

2005

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2005

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

32

Abstract

Recent advances in commercial-off-the-self (COTS) fiber optic transceivers have provided attractive new opportunities for avionics system designers to utilize this new generation of COTS transceivers to develop advanced avionics systems which have stringent requirements for high performance, light weight and low maintenance costs. On the other hand, COTS transceivers are generally not designed specifically to meet avionics environmental requirements. Avionics system designers are facing with a new challenge in selecting the best COTS transceivers, which meet the system cost and performance objectives. Before starting a rigorous qualification test process, a strategy to down select COTS transceivers for specific avionics systems is to utilize extended temperature range testing to identify robust COTS transceivers for avionics system applications. In this paper, we describe some of the extended temperature characterization results for COTS bi-directional (BiDi) transceiver at 125 Mb/s.

Keywords

avionics; optical receivers; optical transmitters; transceivers; 125 Mbit/s; COTS bidirectional transceivers; avionics systems; commercial-off-the-self fiber optic transceivers; extended temperature range testing; Aerospace electronics; Bidirectional control; Costs; Optical design; Optical fibers; Qualifications; Robustness; System testing; Temperature distribution; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Avionics Fiber-Optics and Photonics, 2005. IEEE Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9111-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AVFOP.2005.1514142

Filename

1514142