SBIR-STTR Award

This program develops technology that can be embedded with mil-avionic transceiver to create built-in-test functionality. These features test the transceiver itself (the operating conditions, such a temperature, voltage and valid I/O signals) and the fiber cable plant for transmission loss, return loss and optical time domain reflectometer.

Benefit:
The commercial sector is embedding fiber optic transceivers with in data center racks with 100's to 1000's of fibers. ?This technology would enable rapid deployment and maintenance of fiber optic systems

This program creates technology for health monitoring/diagnostics of fiber optic networks and isolating fiber faults to 1 cm resolution.The approach integrates fiber monitoring technology directly into the fiber optic transceivers.This strategy would create 100% fiber optic network coverage, with no disruption to the existing network infrastructure.The technology has built-in-test capability of link-loss, link-bandwidth, transceiver health monitors (temperature, laser voltage, electrical signal integrity) and optical time domain reflectometer fiber fault detection (OTDR) to 1 cm resolution.We will enable mil-avionic maintainers to isolate faults within the cable plant to a specific section of the pathway and specify the type of fault, reducing the time required for diagnostics.