Communication in Transportation Systems

Title:

Communication in Transportation Systems

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Instructor:

Otto Strobel

Abstract:

The idea of these lecture notes is to give an overview on Optical Data Buses for Automotive Applications. The most important devices for fiber-optic transmission systems are presented and their properties discussed. In particular, we consider such systems working with those basic components necessary to explain the principle of operation. Among them is the optical transmitter, consisting of a light source, typically a low speed LED or a high speed driven laser diode. Furthermore, the optical receiver has to be mentioned; it consists of a photodiode and a front-end amplifier - a cheap low cost or a low noise high bit rate one depending on the application. Yet, in the focus of the considerations you will find the optical fiber as the dominant element in optical communication systems. Different fiber types are presented and their properties explained. The joint action of these three basic components leads to fiber-optic systems, mainly applied for data communication. The systems can operate as transmission links with bit rates up to 40 Gbit/s. But communication systems are also used for recent application areas in the MBit/s region, e.g. in aviation, automobile and maritime industry. Therefore - besides pure glass fibers - polymer-optic fibers (POF) and polymer-cladded silica (PCS) fibers have to be taken into account. Moreover, even different physical layers like radio over fiber, optical wireless and visible light communication can be a solution as well as non optical systems applying radio frequencies.
Keywords: Optical Data Bus, MOST, LED, VCSEL, POF and PCS fibers, Radio over fiber, optical wireless and visible light communication (VLC)

Topics covered

· Motivation for nowadays and future communication in transportation systems
· Principle operation of system components, mainly for optical systems
· Evolution of classical fiber-optic to nowadays and future communication systems applying
optical and related GHz-microwave techniques

References

STROBEL, O. et al.: „Optical Polymer and Polymer-Clad Silica Fiber Data Buses for Vehicles and Airplanes", Invited Paper, Feira Tecnológica Do Inatel, Sao Paulo, Revista Telecommunicações Brazil, Dec. 2009, ISSN 1516-2338
STROBEL, O. (Editor): Communication in Transportation Systems, IGI Global Hershey, PA, USA, 2012
STROBEL, O. Optical Communication and Related Microwave Techniques, John Wiley&Sons, Chichester, UK, 2012

Instructor's CV:

Otto Strobel is Head of Physics Institute and Director of Physics Laboratory, Faculty of Basic Sciences at Esslingen University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He received a Dr.-Ing. degree from Technical University of Berlin and a Dr. h.c. degree from Moscow Aviation Institute, Technical University of Moscow, Russia. He published about 60 papers in the field of fiber-optic technologies and optoelectronics and performed more than 30 visiting professor stays worldwide. He is author of the textbook (in German language) "Technology of Lightwave-Guides in Transmission and Sensing" (VDE 2002, Berlin, 2nd edition, 2011 3rd edition). Furthermore, he is key member of international conferences -International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks ICTON http://www.ict.kth.se/MAP/FMI/Negonet/icton2011/, the "International Workshop on Telecommunications ITW, Brazil" http://www.inatel.br/iwt/, «Microwave & Telecommunication Technology» CriMiCo, Sevastopol, Crimea, Ukraine (2010) http://www.crimico.org, Conference on Composites or Nano Engineering (ICCE 2011) Shanghai, China http://www.icce-nano.org/ and Member of the Construction Consultative Committee of Wuhan Optics Valley of China. He has more than 10 years experience in companies' R&D, as member and consultant of Daimler, Alcatel-Lucent, HP, Agilent and Siemens.