WO2023079248A1 - Dispositif de connexion par reattribution de canal de transmission a un reseau fibre passif de communication multiplexe embarque pour aeronef - Google Patents
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- Connection device by transmission channel reassignment to a passive fiber-optic multiplexed communication network on board an aircraft
- the invention relates to the general field of on-board optical networks for the transmission of multiplexed data in aeronautics or aerospace.
- optical networks on board aeronautical or aerospace vehicles are essentially dedicated to the transmission of data.
- the first of them by its size is the IFE, for "In Flight Entertainment” in English, or entertainment on board in French. It is present on a large number of recent aeronautical programs and provides passengers with software and content intended for their entertainment on board via various equipment.
- connection boxes or FDB for "Floor Disconnect Boxes” in English, referenced 1 to 18, and the on-board entertainment control computer, or IFEC for “In Flight Entertainment Computer” in English.
- the FDBs are 18 in number. They are distributed as close as possible to a group of 20 passengers and, individually, they perform the function of dispatcher/collector of their data.
- the IFEC centralizes the IFE function and contains all the digital content (videos, games, music, etc.) dedicated to entertainment.
- optical links whose maximum lengths reach a maximum length of 45 meters, are doubled, as shown in Figure 1, in order to achieve a bidirectional exchange (IFEC to FDB and FDB to IFEC) and the number of links present is thus increased to approximately forty.
- the links dedicated to sending data by the IFEC on-board entertainment control computer to the FDB connection boxes ensure the downlink (also called the "down") at 5 Mbps/seat, i.e. 100 Mbps for 20 passengers served for an FDB.
- the other links i.e. the links dedicated to the sending of data by the FDB connection boxes to the IFEC on-board entertainment control computer, are dedicated to the rising part (the "up") at 1 Mbps/seat.
- the IFE network on board the A350 is similar to a star network.
- wavelength multiplexing or CWDM for "Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing", mainly used in terrestrial technologies. but not yet widespread in the aircraft industry. It is known, among the key components, the MUX/DEMUX modules performing the wavelength multiplexing/demultiplexing functions.
- Terrestrial CWDM makes it possible to implement up to a number (n C wDM) of 16 different transmission channels. These transmission channels are the following infrared wavelengths: 1310, 1330, 1350, 1370, 1390, 1410, 1430, 1450, 1470, 1490, 1510, 1530, 1550, 1570, 1590 and 1610 nm. Their spacing of 20 nm makes it possible to guarantee a non-covering of the spectral lines whatever the ambient temperatures.
- FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 show an example of transmission on a single CWDM multiplexed optical line at ten wavelengths X. All the wavelengths are different and referenced from Xi to X 10 .
- the optical line operates in point-to-point and bidirectional mode (up and down). The up and the down are shown separately (down in figure 2 and up in figure 3) for more visibility but the bricks and the line are the same.
- brick we mean an optical multiplexer, denoted MUX in Figures 2 and 3, or an optical demultiplexer, denoted DEMUX in Figures 2 and 3.
- Each node 20 comprises an optical multiplexing MUX module and an optical demultiplexing DEMUX module allowing access to the data transmitted on the line in order to inject them (“add”) or extract them (“drop”) simultaneously.
- the MUX optical multiplexer and the DEMUX optical demultiplexer of the same node are coupled together via 22 single-mode optical fibers coupled between the single-mode inputs of one and the single-mode outputs of the other.
- the IFE architecture could be arranged as shown in Figure 4. But such an architecture has a number of drawbacks.
- CWDM notably presents intrinsic limits, on the one hand, related to two physical principles, and, on the other hand, related to the specific case of reconfiguration.
- CWDM Length-division multiplexing
- the first principle is the wave aspect of light. Any beam can be likened to a wave when its spectral line is narrow (a few nanometers wide). However, if the beam is placed in the presence of a second beam of an identical nature (similar intensity and identical wavelength ⁇ o ) but in phase opposition, then there will be destructive interference. The beams recombining, they will totally or partially disappear and the information conveyed with them as well.
- the second limiting physical principle is the conservation of energy.
- h Planck constant
- c the speed of light
- a first option consists in modifying the new transmitter and receiver systems accordingly, and more precisely their spectral characteristics in transmission (TX) and reception (RX) to bring the new signal to an unusual wavelength.
- TX transmission
- RX reception
- the number of CWDM wavelengths is limited.
- a second option consists in adding two optical/electronic and electronic/optical conversion modules, in series, in order to obtain the desired transmission channel, in other words in this case CWDM, the desired wavelength.
- conversion modules is similar to what is done with reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexers, or ROADM for "Reconfigurable Optical Add Drop Multiplexer” in English, available in the field of telecommunications. It has the advantage of not modifying the embedded systems as in the previous scenario. Indeed, the conversion modules can be considered as part of the transmission medium: the cable and its nodes.
- optical/electronic and electronic/optical conversion modules have a non-negligible mass that must be weighed against the mass gains of the CWDM multiplexed network alone.
- these modules for their electronic component, must host specific software for protocol management. In addition, they must meet possible broadband expectations while being insensitive to electromagnetic disturbances. Besides the fact that this conversion brings latency, the electronics require dedicated shielding, as well as hardened components, and other constraining items.
- a fiber network in an aircraft must be as adaptable and flexible as possible.
- a CWDM architecture turns out to be limited in number of channels and difficult to reconfigure with any reconfiguration of the network.
- the invention aims to provide a solution making it possible to benefit from a gain in mass, from simplification and from passivity of the on-board multiplexed network while overcoming all the constraints mentioned above in the event of reconfiguration of the network. .
- An object of the invention proposes a device for connection to an on-board multiplexed communication network by multimode optical fibers intended to be mounted on board an aircraft, the device comprising a first optical component for modifying the spatial profile of the light beam comprising a a multi-mode optical input terminal configured to be connected to a first multi-mode optical fiber and single-mode optical output terminals, and a second light beam spatial profile modifying optical component comprising single-mode optical input terminals and an output terminal multimode optic configured to be connected to a second multimode optical fiber.
- connection device further comprises an optical harness for routing and reassigning the transmission channel comprising single-mode optical inputs coupled to the single-mode optical output terminals of the first component, single-mode optical outputs coupled to the monomode optical input terminals of the second optical component, and a plurality of monomode waveguides connected at a first end to an input of the optical harness and/or at a second end to an output of the optical harness.
- optical harness for routing and reassigning the transmission channel comprising single-mode optical inputs coupled to the single-mode optical output terminals of the first component, single-mode optical outputs coupled to the monomode optical input terminals of the second optical component, and a plurality of monomode waveguides connected at a first end to an input of the optical harness and/or at a second end to an output of the optical harness.
- the propagation modes excited in the fiber are characterized by spatial phase and electric field intensity profiles in a plane transverse to the propagation axis. These profiles are different according to the modes and several modes can coexist.
- Multimode fibers are advantageous because they can transmit more energy than a single mode fiber when the beam applied to the input has several modes. A single-mode fiber would purely and simply eliminate the energy brought in modes other than the fundamental mode.
- the optical components for modifying the spatial profile of the light beam are passive optical components making it possible to carry out spatial multiplexing, or SDM for "Spatial Division Multiplexing" in English, thanks to the technology of multi-plane conversion of light, or MPLC for "Muli-Plane Light Converter” in English.
- SDM involves a so-called modal or spatial transmission channel, different from the transmission channels used in other optical multiplexing technologies.
- MPLC technology provides a simple and efficient way to shape the transverse profile of any single-mode Gaussian coherent beam. This modeling, reproduced simultaneously for n different input beams, makes it possible to assign to each of them the form of a mode of propagation of the multimode network fiber. All of the beams are then injected in the different modal forms into the multimode optical fiber and transmitted at the end of the line without interference to the second MPLC demultiplexing module, i.e. to the second optical component for modifying light beam spatial profile.
- Spatial multiplexing is compatible with wavelength multiplexing which means that, per mode, it is possible to use several wavelengths.
- signals emitted with identical characteristics can be transmitted within the same multimode fiber when the modes are different. It is therefore possible to coexist within the same optical fiber, on different modes, two different signals but having identical transmission characteristics.
- 30 channels can therefore be used per direction of propagation.
- the use of propagation modes as a transmission channel makes it possible to overcome energy and wavelength considerations.
- the fact of using the modal transmission channels makes it possible to override the limitation of spectral conversion mentioned above.
- the SDM therefore makes it possible to simply and effectively reallocate the transmission channel from one mode to another, whatever they may be.
- the SDM implemented by these optical components thus provides a solution making it possible to multiply the data transport capacities on board aircraft tenfold to meet the growing needs for data exchange on board, while offering a high capacity for reconfiguration of the wiring throughout the life of the aircraft.
- Spatial multiplexing does not suffer from the problems encountered with wavelength division multiplexing, in particular related to the installation of a secondary power supply network to offer the possibility of reconfiguring the network following the removal or addition of subscribers.
- the optical harness for switching and reassigning transmission channels offers the possibility of modifying the configuration of the optical network whenever necessary by deleting or adding a subscriber or by modifying optical links in order to reassign a optical signal on a new modal transmission channel.
- the optical harness forms an optical connection interface between two light beam spatial profile modifying optical components
- the multiplexed network with spatial multiplexing using such a connection device is better than a CWDM network, while maintaining a passive character of the elements used and an efficiency at least equivalent and achieving a mass gain thanks to the absence of heavy additional device.
- connection device does not use any additional electronic device or power supply that can add weight, or software. It only uses waveguides whose mass is as low as possible.
- connection device is bidirectional and supports existing multiplexed technologies without recourse to any software and while offering an increased number of usable channels compared to known technologies because spatial multiplexing includes multiplexing.
- the number of channels offered in SDM corresponds to the result of the product between the number of modes and the number of wavelengths available.
- each of the first and second spatial profile modification optical components may comprise a first input/output of a multimode light beam, a second beam input/output, at least two mirrors allowing multiple reflection of the beam between the two mirrors, and an optical phase-shifting structure mounted on one of the two mirrors and which comprises several sets of multiple elementary phase-shifting zones, the individual phase-shifting patterns introduced by the elementary phase-shifting zones in each set generating an intermediate transformation of the spatial profile of the beam following the passage of the beam in this set, and the intermediate transformations generated by several sets combining, during the passages of the beam on the phase shift structure during multiple reflections between the mirrors, to form an overall transformation which includes a transformation of a first mode or group of propagation modes present in the light beam at the input into a second mode or group of propagation modes at the output, and reciprocally a transformation of the second mode or group of modes present in the light beam at the input towards the first output mode or group of modes.
- the single-mode waveguides of the optical harness are made of silica.
- the optical harness can be removable from the connection device to be replaced for example during maintenance operations on the ground by another optical harness of possibly different configuration.
- Another object of the invention proposes an onboard optical communication network adapted to allow data transmission by multimode optical fiber between equipment items of an aircraft, the network comprising an upstream multimode optical fiber intended to be coupled to a source of a light radiation digitally modulated by the information and a downstream multimode optical fiber intended to be coupled to a receiver making it possible to demodulate this information, characterized in that it comprises at least one connection device as defined above and connected between the upstream optical fiber and the downstream optical fiber.
- Another object of the invention proposes an aircraft comprising at least one on-board optical communication network as defined above.
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- Figure 1 already described, schematically presents a data distribution network known from the prior art.
- FIG.2 Figure 2 already described, schematically illustrates an example of transmission in a first direction on a wavelength multiplexed optical line of the prior art.
- FIG.3 Figure 3, already described, schematically illustrates an example of transmission in a second direction opposite to the first direction, on a wavelength multiplexed optical line of the prior art.
- FIG.4 Figure 4, already described, schematically presents a hypothetical wavelength multiplexed optical network according to the prior art.
- Figure 5 schematically represents an optical component for modifying the spatial profile of a light beam according to one embodiment of the invention
- Figure 6 schematically represents an optical communication network comprising a connection device according to one embodiment of the invention.
- the spatial profile of a light beam is a distribution profile of the electric field in a section of the light beam transverse to the axis of propagation. It is a profile of complex amplitudes of an electric field which can be represented at all points of the section by an intensity and a phase.
- the intensity profile would be a Gaussian in the case of a beam transmitted by a monomode fiber excited according to the fundamental mode.
- the profile is obviously more complex in the case of a multimode beam and it can be broken down into specific profiles corresponding to each mode.
- the modes of propagation in a multimode fiber are commonly listed in the literature and often designated by letters and numbers which indicate the nature of the mode and its order along two dimensions.
- the first order mode or fundamental mode is commonly designated by the name LP01
- the higher modes are the LP11a, LP11b, LP21a, LP11b, LP02, LP03, LP31a, LP31b, etc. modes.
- any beam propagating in a multimode fiber can be split based on the LP modes.
- the technical literature gives abundantly the shapes of these spatial profiles for the most common modes.
- the mode which propagates fastest is the fundamental mode LP01.
- the other modes propagate more slowly, first the LP11 mode, then the LP02 and LP21 modes, and then the other modes. It is for example possible to choose to divide these modes into a first group comprising only the LP01 mode and a second group comprising the LP11, LP02 and LP21 modes.
- the two modes can be divided into a first group comprising the LP01 mode and the LP11 mode and a second group comprising the LP02 and LP21 modes.
- a division of the fiber modes into more than two groups is possible.
- phase-shifting elements are programmable and consist of electrically operable deformable mirrors, but the principle would be the same with a plate of non-programmable mirrors structured with a fixed configuration for a predefined transformation. It would also be the same with a programmable (liquid crystal) or non-programmable transparent plate, structured to introduce a phase shift matrix on the path of the light beam.
- any unitary (energy-conserving) beam spatial profile transformation can be obtained exactly using a finite number of intermediate transformations obtained by alternating phase-shifting structures and beam transformations.
- Fourier optics If a limit (for example about ten) is imposed on the number of intermediate transformations, the global transformation obtained will be more approximate.
- the phase-shifting structures modify the phases point by point in the section of the light beam.
- the optical Fourier transforms can be lenses or spherical mirrors but in practice a simple propagation of the beam over a few centimeters in free space between two phase-shifting structures can replace the optical Fourier transforms in the alternation.
- the previous article gives a recipe for the design of optical systems based on a succession of phase-shifting structures and free propagation between these structures to perform any unitary transformation of the spatial profile of a coherent light beam.
- this output beam causes this output beam to interfere with a beam having a desired spatial profile on the plane corresponding to a phase-shifting structure.
- the result of the interferences on the plane corresponding to each phase-shifting structure is observed and the configuration of the structure is modified in a direction tending to maximize the interferences.
- This operation is repeated on the successive phase-shifting structures and it is started again by successive iterations on all the structures until an output beam with a profile very close to the desired beam is obtained.
- the final configuration of the phase-shifting structures obtained after these iterations then serves to constitute the optical component for modifying the spatial profile which transforms the first profile into a desired second profile, whatever it may be.
- Transformations consisting of a multiplexing of several propagation modes, that is to say a transformation of the spatial profile of several simple modes into a complex mode combining the spatial profiles of the simple modes, have been proposed in the article by Bryan Labroille and others, "Efficient and mode-selective spatial mode multiplexer based on multi-plane light conversion", in Optics Express 30 June 2014 vol 22 N°13 p 15599.
- the component that performs this transformation also makes it possible to perform the inverse transformation (demultiplexing). Rather than using a succession of phase-shifting structures separated by free spaces of propagation, it uses a multiple reflection of the beam between two mirrors and a passage of the beam each time through the same phase-shifting structure but in different portions of it. ci, each portion representing the equivalent of a particular phase-shifting structure.
- the optical component that is used in the present invention is a spatial profile transformation component produced according to the principles that have just been described. It executes a transformation of the spatial profiles corresponding to several modes or groups of propagation modes, each profile being transformed into another profile, in particular to transform the monomode signals into a multimode signal or vice versa.
- a simplified example can be given of a way of carrying out the invention in the case where the input beam comprises only two modes LP01 (fast) and LP11a (slow ).
- Such a beam given by way of example may have been obtained by preliminary filtering eliminating all the other modes.
- the LP11a mode In the propagation in the fibre(s) at the output, the LP11a mode will lose the advance that it had taken at the input and the LP01 mode will catch up with the delay that it had taken. If the fibers are identical, they should preferably be given identical lengths. If they are not identical, that is to say if they do not give the same differences in propagation delay, it is necessary to calculate the optimal position of the component to place it at the place where the differences in delay due to the input fiber are equal to the delay differences due to the output fiber.
- FIG. 5 is schematically illustrated an example of architecture of an optical component 50 for modifying the spatial optical profile of a light beam according to an embodiment of the invention.
- the optical component 50 comprises a first multimode terminal 53 to which is connected a multimode optical fiber 51 which provides a beam F modulated in amplitude by digital information, second single-mode terminals 54 to which are connected single-mode optical fibers 52, a couple of mirrors 55 and 56, and a structure 57 for optical phase shifting of the beam.
- the first terminal and the second terminals are preferably systems comprising lenses.
- the beam F is delivered as input to the first multimode terminal 53 of the optical component 50 by the fiber multimode optics 51 .
- the beam F is then directed onto a pair of mirrors 55, 56, possibly passing through optical elements such as lenses, reflecting mirrors, semi-transparent mirrors.
- the optical phase shift structure 57 is produced on the reflecting surface of the first mirror 55, and the pair of mirrors 55 and 56 ensures the multiple reflections of the beam.
- the optical phase shift structure 57 is formed on the reflecting surface of the first mirror 55.
- the first mirror 55 comprises, on the scale of the wavelength of the radiation, a reflecting surface having a relief whose hollows and bumps define by their heights and depths the relative phase shifts to be applied to the beam parts which strike these hollows and these bumps.
- These heights and depths relative to a mean plane are of the order of the wavelength of the light beam, ranging from a fraction of a wavelength to a few wavelengths.
- a working wavelength could be 1550nm.
- the first mirror 55 thus plays here not only the role of mirror to provide multiple paths of the beam but also the role of optical phase shift structure of the beam.
- the multimodal beam is thus transformed, as the successive phase shifts progress, into a set of single-mode light beams at the output of the pair of mirrors 55 and 56.
- the light beams Fs are directed at the output towards the second single-mode terminals 54 before each be injected into a single-mode optical fiber 52.
- the optical component 50 operates in both directions.
- the first multimode terminal 53 is an output terminal and the second terminals 54 are input terminals.
- FIG. 6 schematically represents a multiplexed optical data communication network 30 according to one embodiment of the invention.
- the optical network 30 comprises an optical source S digitally modulated by information to be transmitted and an optical receiver R making it possible to decode the digital information transmitted.
- the optical network 30 further comprises two connection devices 40 connected in series between the source S and the receiver R.
- the source S is connected to a first connection device 40 via an optical component 50s for spatial profile modification and a first optical fiber multimode 31, and the receiver is connected to a second connection device 40 via an optical spatial profile modification component 50r via a second multimode optical fiber 32. And the first connection device 40 is coupled to the second connection device 40 via a third multimode optical fiber 33.
- Each connection device 40 comprises a first optical component 50a configured to be connected to a multimode optical fiber on its multimode input terminal 53a and deliver monomode light beams on its monomode output terminals 54a, a second optical component 50b configured to receive monomode optical beams on its monomode inputs 54b and be connected to a multimode optical fiber on its multimode output 53b, and an optical harness 60 for switching and reassigning the transmission channel coupled between the monomode output terminals 54a of the first optical component 50a and the monomode input terminals 54b of the second optical component 50b.
- the optical harness 60 comprises a plurality of silica optical fibers 61, single-mode in the case of SDM, and one or more fiber terminals, also called connectors, in order to authorize the replacement of the harness.
- the harness 60 can comprise different coupling configurations between its input and output connectors, these couplings possibly comprising couplings to additional inputs to allow connection to a new optical fiber thus allowing the connection of a new subscriber to the optical network, or, conversely, an absence of coupling from one input to one of the outputs, or vice versa.
- the optical harness 60 makes it possible to ensure the routing of the various optical signals on the transmission channels available among the multimode fibers 31 of the optical network 30.
- the routing is determined by the routing optical fibers used between the two optical components 50 which carry out the spatial profile modification.
- the optical fibers 61 are inserted according to the particular arrangement desired in the terminals 54.
- the optical channel reassignment harness 60 can take two different forms. It could for example be considered as a single component because it is made up of integral and inseparable elements.
- the optical harness 60 fixed in a specific configuration is identified with a unique reference. In such case, in the event of a search for a new routing solution, it is the entire harness with its connector(s) at the ends that should be replaced by another harness meeting the need for reconfigurability.
- the optical harness 60 in fixed configuration can thus be made with a multifiber harness of the MPO type complying with standard IEC 61754-7 with high density optical contacts. In fact, after mounting the contacts on the multifibre harness, it is not possible to modify the arrangement of the fibres.
- the optical harness 60 can be upgradeable and modifiable.
- the fibers are independent of each other and easily manipulated in order to be able to extract or insert each of the contacts at their ends into the dedicated cavity of terminal 54.
- the contacts in question may be of the so-called snap or push-type type. sweater in English.
- the contacts conventionally used in the aeronautical field such as the ELIO ⁇ contact (EN4531) or Luxcis ⁇ (ARINC 801) which can for example be associated with connectors of the MIL 38999 or EN4165 or ARINC600 type, without forgetting to
- the traditional telecom contacts such as the Lucent Connector (LC) complying with the IEC 61754-20 standard and or the Switching Connector (SC) complying with the IEC 61754-4 standard.
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