An FSK/FDM Multiplexed Fiber Optics System for Multichannel Asynchronous Digital Data Transmission

• Main Authors: McDevitt, F. R., Patisaul, C. R.
• Other Authors: Harris Corporation
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 1976
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/609396; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/609396

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / September 28-30, 1976 / Hyatt House Hotel, Los Angeles, California === In this paper the use of frequency division multiplexing to reduce the cost of fiber-optic digital data interconnects is investigated. An analysis is performed to determine the level of multiplexing achievable for a typical optical cable link and the cost of the multiplexed link is compared to that of all-parallel transmission for link distances of 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 km and data rates of 100 kb/s and 1 Mb/s. The results of this work show that for the present and the near-term future, at least, multiplexing offers substantial cost savings over all-parallel transmission.