Design of free-space optical transmission system in computer tomography equipment

Min Liu; Weiwei Fu; Tao Zhang

doi:10.1117/1.OE.57.4.046110

24 April 2018 Design of free-space optical transmission system in computer tomography equipment

Min Liu, Weiwei Fu, Tao Zhang

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 57, Issue 4, 046110 (April 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.4.046110

Abstract

Traditional computer tomography (CT) based on capacitive coupling cannot satisfy the high data rate transmission requirement. We design and experimentally demonstrate a free-space optical transmission system for CT equipment at a data rate of 10 Gb / s. Two interchangeable sections of 12 pieces of fiber with equal length is fabricated and tested by our designed laser phase distance measurement system. By locating the 12 collimators in the edge of the circle wheel evenly, the optical propagation characteristics for the 12 wired and wireless paths are similar, which can satisfy the requirement of high-speed CT transmission system. After bit error rate (BER) measurement in several conditions, the BER performances are below the value of 10 − 11, which has the potential in the future application scenario of CT equipment.

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Min Liu, Weiwei Fu, and Tao Zhang "Design of free-space optical transmission system in computer tomography equipment," Optical Engineering 57(4), 046110 (24 April 2018). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.57.4.046110

Received: 21 October 2017; Accepted: 4 April 2018; Published: 24 April 2018

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