System level radiation response of a high performance fiber optic data bus

Author

Dale, Cheryl J. ; Marshall, Paul W. ; Fritz, Martin E. ; De la Chapelle, Michael ; Carts, Martin A. ; LaBel, Kenneth A.

Author_Institution

Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

18-22 Sep 1995

Firstpage

531

Lastpage

538

Abstract

We present experimental determinations of the total ionizing dose response and the proton-induced Single Event Upset (SEU) sensitivity of components comprising a 200 Mbps star coupled fiber optic data bus. These results are compared with the in-situ response of the operating system under proton bombardment, resulting in excellent correlation of the system error rate with proton-induced bit errors in the receiver photodiode. Modeling and error rate predictions for orbital performance indicate robust tolerance to even harsh natural space environments

Keywords

data communication; optical fibre communication; optical fibres; optical receivers; proton effects; 200 Mbit/s; error rate predictions; harsh natural space environments; proton-induced bit errors; proton-induced single event upset; receiver photodiode; robust tolerance; star coupled fiber optic data bus; system error rate; system level radiation response; total ionizing dose response; Error analysis; Operating systems; Optical coupling; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Photodiodes; Predictive models; Protons; Robustness; Single event upset;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radiation and its Effects on Components and Systems, 1995. RADECS 95., Third European Conference on

Conference_Location

Arcachon

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3093-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RADECS.1995.509833

Filename

509833