FIBER OPTIC WAVELENGTH-SAMPLING LAN BASED INTEGRATED SHIPBOARD IC SYSTEM

PHYSICAL OPTICS CORPORATION (POC) PROPOSES TO DESIGN AND TO DEVELOP A NOVEL FIBER OPTIC LAN/FDDI INTEGRATED SHIPBOARD SC SYSTEM WHICH WILL BE BASED ON WAVELENGTH-SAMPLING-MULTIPLEXING (WSM) TECHNIQUES. THESE TECHNIQUES, SUGGESTED A FEW YEARS AGO FOR "FLIGHT BY LIGHT" SYSTEM APPLICATIONS, NEVER ACHIEVED PRACTICAL FEASIBILITY DUE TO POOR POWER BUDGETS AND TO THEIR IMMATURITY ON A PHYSICAL (HARDWARE) LAYER LEVEL. POC'S PROPOSAL SOLVES BOTH THOSE PROBLEMS. POC'S APPROACH IS BASED ON A NOVEL WSM DESIGN AND A NEW GENERATION OF NON-LAMBERTIAN LIGHT SOURCES, CALLED ELEDS (EDGE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES), WHICH HAVE EXCELLENT POWER BUDGETS. POC'S LAN/FDDI IS FULLY TRANSPARENT TO THE TYPE OF DATA TRANSMITTED (VOICE, DATA, VIDEO, ETC.), IS MODULAR, HAS HIGH SURVIVABILITY, PROVIDES ADDITIONAL CODING POSSIBILITIES, HAS AN EXTREMELY HIGH DATA RATE, IS IMMUNE TO EMI, AND EXHIBITS STRONG SECURITY CAPABILITIES.