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Performance of a 12-GHz fiber-optic system for beam-waveguide antenna stability testing
- Source :
- The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Report 42-109: January-March 1992.
- Publication Year :
- 1992
- Publisher :
- United States: NASA Center for Aerospace Information (CASI), 1992.
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Abstract
- A 12-GHz fiber-optic system is a critical part of a test configuration that was proposed for measuring the fractional frequency stability of the Deep Space Station (DSS)-13 beam-waveguide (BWG) antenna. This fiber-optic system is used to carry Ku-band (12-GHz) signals from a reference antenna to the DSS-13 BWG pedestal room. Tests performed only on the fiber-optic system portion of the overall test configuration showed that the 12-GHz fiber-optic system (installed at DSS-13) has a frequency stability of about 1.1 x 10(exp -16) for sampling time tau = 1000 sec for a nighttime run. This preliminary result establishes the lowest noise floor that can probably be achieved for the test configuration that will be used to measure the frequency stability of the DSS-13 BWG antenna.
- Subjects :
- Optics
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Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- NASA Technical Reports
- Journal :
- The Telecommunications and Data Acquisition Report 42-109: January-March 1992
- Notes :
- RTOP 310-20-65-92-01
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsnas.19920020129
- Document Type :
- Report