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    The document describes a Fiber Optic Communications Educational Toolkit (FOC ETK) that was developed to provide undergraduate and graduate students a low-cost way to study high-speed fiber optic communication systems. The FOC ETK allows students to investigate existing fiber optic systems through experiments and also supports student projects. Several experiments were developed using the FOC ETK, including testing fiber link linearity and attenuation. The FOC ETK transmitter and receiver circuits were designed to demonstrate concepts such as dispersion, rise/fall time, encoding, and retiming using inexpensive plastic fiber.

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    Fiber Optic Communications Educational Toolkit

    ASEE National Conference Summer 2008

    Dr. Akram Abu-aisheh & Dr. Jonathan Hill

    Introduction
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    The main motive for this work was the need for a low cost laboratory alternative for schools teaching Fiber Optic Communications (FOC) to supplement courses offered in this field This FOC educational toolkit (ETK) provides both undergraduate and graduate students with a new way to study the physical layer of high speed fiber optic communications systems

    FOC ETK Significance


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    The Fiber Optic Communications educational toolkit (FOC ETK) provides undergraduate and graduate students with a low cost and flexible tool to study high speed fiber optic communication systems As an introductory tool, the FOC ETK allows for deductive approach, to investigate existing systems. Advanced students ready for an inductive approach can use the toolkit in their own projects

    FOC ETC Design Rationale


    !

    To design a fiber optic toolkit that is:


    !

    ! !

    Able to demonstrate phenomena related to high speed data communications; issues involve bandwidth, dispersion, rise and fall time, synchronous communications involving coding and retiming with phase-lock loop Uses inexpensive plastic fiber, no longer than 25m Inexpensive high speed, at least 1Mb/s set-up

    Fiber Optic Communications Educational Toolkit


    The FOC educational Toolkit can be used to develop low cost fiber optic communications teaching laboratories It is a tool that can be used to supplement courses offered in this field.

    Developed Experiments
    !

    Several Experiments were developed and implemented using the educational FOC toolkit. These experiments include: Fiber Optic Link Linearity. FOC Link Attenuation FOC Link Dispersion Data transmission The following slides cover those experiments

    " # $# %# & #

    Basic Fiber Optic Link


    The circuit below is used to test fiber optic link linearity and attenuation in optical fiber data links

    Basic fiber optic link

    The LED load resistor is selected to adjust the LED current, and the photo diode load resistor sets the sensitivity of the receiver.

    Fiber Optic Link Linearity


    !

    Using the basic fiber optic link circuit given in the previous slide, several Experiments were developed to test the source and link linearity and fiber optic link attenuation. Given that the LED forward voltage is nearly constant, we expect to see a linear relationship between the transmitter and the receiver currents.

    Fiber Optic Link Linearity

    Attenuation and Power Budget


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    ! !

    The power budget is a useful tool for considering how optical power can be a constraining factor. The FOCETK can be used for Attenuation Experiments The difference between the transmitter power and the minimum required power at the receiver is the amount of power available to the link, which comprises the sum of all the losses and margin.

    Ptx " Prx = ! Ploss + Pm

    Attenuation and Power Budget

    Fiber Optic Communications


    FOC Involves the following:
    ! ! ! ! !

    High speed data Transmitter Receiver, detector and slicer Dispersion & rise & fall time Data Encoding & decoding Retiming, phase-lock loop

    FOC ETC Transmitter


    In this data transmitter circuit, the FPGA forms a low voltage differential drive signal (LVDS)

    FOC Toolkit transmitter

    FOC ETC Receiver


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    A large resistance is selected to provide the required sensitivity. The amplifier uses negative feedback in such a way that from the photo detector the effective resistance appears very small, which allows the bandwidth and data rate to be large.

    FOC Toolkit Non-inverting receiver

    FOC ETC Slicing CKT


    The output of the trans-impedance amplifier is very analog and will not comply with any given logic signal standard The circuit below converts such a signal to digital values. Such action is called slicing the signal

    FOC Toolkit Data slicing circuit

    Dispersion in Optical Fiber


    Optical dispersion is the spreading that occurs to a light pulse as it travels along an optical fiber

    To =

    Ttx 2 + Tf 2 + Trx 2

    Pulse dispersion in optical fiber

    Bandwidth and Rise time


    A relationship between rise time and bandwidth is particularly useful. In considering the time to rise from 10% to 90% of the final value, we solve for H(s) and h(t) to find tr.

    K H (s) = 1+! s

    ; where

    Fc =

    1 2" !

    h(t ) = K 1 " e "t / !

    " ln(0.1) + ln(0.9) 0.35 tr = ! sec 2# Fc Fc

    Encoding and Message Frame


    Synchronous serial communications is a widely used technique whereby the transmitter uses an encoding to convey the data and clock together

    Manchester coded data

    Beginning of a message

    Symbol Retiming
    It is common practice in communications to use a phase-lock loop to track a Manchester coded signal. The FOC ETK can produce a preamble waveform and provides a discrete time phase-lock loop for retiming

    Conclusion
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    The FOC toolkit presents a low cost alternative for educators to teach the physical layer of FOC data links A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is used to generate the transmit data signal and also retime received signals. Other than the flexibility afforded by an FPGA, the accompanying development board should be particularly flexible in the discretion afforded to the instructor.

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