International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 26-29, 1992 / Town and Country Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California / This paper gives detailed ideas and methods about the design and development of high performance MIL-STD-1773 airborne fiber optic data bus. To reject impulsive interference efficaciously, the large core and large numerical aperture fiber optics are adopted, as well as high- emitted power LEDs and a low noise optical receiver structure to get high signal-to-noise ratio at decision time. Two new modulation technique----digital frequency shift keying and partial tri-level Manchester are recommended, which are very attractive in the design of modern optical bus. Meanwhile, VLSI chips COM1553B are used to construct bus control interface unit, thus many advantages have been brought out.