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  • Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference
  • OSA Technical Digest Series (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2007),
  • paper OMF2

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

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Abstract

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.

© 2007 Optical Society of America

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