Fiber Interferometry for Testing Military Avionics

Fiber-optic networks have benefited from nearly 20 years of continuous expansion (notwithstanding the brief, yet surprisingly quiet period from 2002 to 2005). For terrestrial networking, this growth is easily understood and is due mainly to the fact that the optical network delivers higher bandwidth over longer lengths at a lower total cost per bit than other network technologies. However, there are many modern applications of the fiber-optic network, whose main drivers fall outside of the bandwidth-overlong- range and cost-per-bit economics.