A Highly reliable High Data Rate Optical Telemetry Link Technology

Physical Optics Corporation (POC) proposes to develop a new type of optical telemetry link technology that has potential in addressing high speed data rates (>100 Mb/s) while preserving a very low bit error rate (<10-10). The proposed optical telemetry link technology will combine three unique techniques in achieving both high data rate and low bit error rate performance: (1) a digital modulation technique, used to increase the data capacity in a given signal bandwidth; (2) an adaptive receiver technique, employed to improve overall bit error performance; and (3) a binary optics technique, used to reduce signal degradation in noisy atmospheric conditions. Our Phase I work will focus on the technical feasibility analysis and a system design of the link. Based on these analyses and system design work in Phase I, an optical telemetry link system prototype will be constructed and tested in Phase II.