Passive and active optical fibers for space and terrestrial applications

Mansoor Alam; Jaroslaw Abramczyk; Julia Farroni; Upendra Manyam; Douglas Guertin

doi:10.1117/12.678087

30 August 2006 Passive and active optical fibers for space and terrestrial applications

Mansoor Alam, Jaroslaw Abramczyk, Julia Farroni, Upendra Manyam, Douglas Guertin

Proceedings Volume 6308, Photonics for Space Environments XI; 630808 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.678087
Event: SPIE Optics + Photonics, 2006, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Being the new frontier of science and technology, as the near earth space begins to attract attention, low cost and rapidly deployable earth observation satellites are becoming more important. Among other things these satellites are expected to carry out missions in the general areas of science and technology, remote sensing, national defense and telecommunications. Except for critical missions, constraints of time and money practically mandate the use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components as the only viable option. The near earth space environment (~50-50000 miles) is relatively hostile and among other things components/devices/systems are exposed to ionizing radiation. Photonic devices/systems are and will continue to be an integral part of satellites and their payloads. The ability of such devices/systems to withstand ionizing radiation is of extreme importance. Qualification of such devices/systems is time consuming and very expensive. As a result, manufacturers of satellites and their payloads have started to ask for radiation performance data on components from the individual vendors. As an independent manufacturer of both passive and active specialty silica optical fibers, Nufern is beginning to address this issue. Over the years, Nufern has developed fiber designs, compositions and processes to make radiation hard fibers. Radiation performance data (both gamma and proton) of a variety of singlemode (SM), multimode (MM), polarization maintaining (PM) and rare-earth doped (RED) fibers that find applications in space environment are presented.

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Mansoor Alam, Jaroslaw Abramczyk, Julia Farroni, Upendra Manyam, and Douglas Guertin "Passive and active optical fibers for space and terrestrial applications", Proc. SPIE 6308, Photonics for Space Environments XI, 630808 (30 August 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.678087

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