Submarine Optical Communication: A research Review

The future of tactical ocean environment will be increasingly complicated. In addition to traditional communication links there will be a proliferation of unmanned vehicles in space, in the air, on the surface, and underwater. To effectively utilize these systems improvements in underwater communication systems are needed. Since radio waves do not propagate in sea water and acoustic communication systems are relatively low bandwidths, the possibility of high speed underwater optical communication systems are considered. In this paper we discuss the research aspects of submarine optical communication, its design issues and the implementation parameters.