Photonic powering of sensors with bidirectional communication along a single fiber

Abstract

In this paper we propose and study simultaneous transmission of photonic power and bidirectional communication to and from sensors via 840/1310 nm WDMs. The photovoltaic converter is used both for power conversion and data transfer from the high-power laser at 808 nm up to 1Mb/s while the 1310 nm link can be up to 155 Mb/s.