A power-over-fiber system and its low consumption remote equipment for submarine applications

Author

Perhirin, Steven ; Audo, F. ; Guegan, M. ; Quintard, V. ; Perennou, A. ; Ghisa, L. ; De Blasi, Serge ; Auffret, Yves

Author_Institution

Ecole Nat. d´Ing. de Brest (ENIB), Univ. Eur. de Bretagne (UEB), Brest, France

fYear

2013

fDate

10-14 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

A power-over-fiber system using a single fiber optic of 10km devoted to transmit the energy to supply a remote equipment and also the up/down-stream data exchanged between a shore station and the equipment, is presented in this paper. Firstly, we present an overview of the developed quasi-all-optical architecture and its main communication protocol: the SPI. Then, we focus on its low consumption remote equipment and more precisely on a device called “the interface instrument” which is made of two main units. One realizes the optical toelectrical conversion to provide the power supply. The other one manages the optical data. Afterwards, experimental characterizations of the prototype are given and discussed.

Keywords

optical fibre communication; protocols; underwater optical wireless communication; communication protocol; optical to-electrical conversion; power supply; power-over-fiber system; quasi-all-optical architecture; remote equipment; shore station; single fiber optic; submarine application; Instruments; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Protocols; Low power system; Optoelectronics; Power-over-fiber; Sea floor observatory; Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE

Conference_Location

Bergen

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0000-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6608175

Filename

6608175