A High-Efficiency Ytterbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier Designed for Interplanetary Laser Communications

Design, performance, and environmental screening of flight prototype Ytterbium amplifiers designed for the Mars Laser Communications Demonstration are described. The high-reliability design delivered >8-W average power with low-duty-cycle PPM waveforms and >21% electrical-to-optical conversion...

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Published inOFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference pp. 1 - 3
Main Authors Spellmeyer, N.W., Caplan, D.O., Robinson, B.S., Sandberg, D., Stevens, M.L., Willis, M.M., Gapontsev, D.V., Platonov, N.S., Yusim, A.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.2007
Subjects
Diodes
Fiber lasers
Optical amplifiers
Optical design
Optical fiber amplifiers
Optical fiber communication
Optical fiber polarization
Optical transmitters
Pulse amplifiers
Stimulated emission
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Summary:Design, performance, and environmental screening of flight prototype Ytterbium amplifiers designed for the Mars Laser Communications Demonstration are described. The high-reliability design delivered >8-W average power with low-duty-cycle PPM waveforms and >21% electrical-to-optical conversion efficiency.
ISBN:9781557528315
1557528314
DOI:10.1109/OFC.2007.4348555