A 10 MEGABYTE S FIBER OPTIC LINK

This paper presents a fibre optic link (FOL) that has been developed f or the NA48 experiment at CERN [1]. About 15 FOLs will be used to tran sfer event data to the Data Merger (event builder) over a distance of 200 metres. The FOL has a very simple interface and is capable of tran smitting data at a rate of over 10 Mbyte/s while performing error dete ction. The optical part of the FOL uses industry standard components. This, combined with its simplicity of use, makes the FOL suitable to b e reused in a wide range of applications, which is shown by its use ou tside the NA48 experiment.