Fiber Laser Components Technology Readiness Overview NASA Electronic Parts and Packaging Program

Optical Fiber Assemblies for Space Flight from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Photonics Group

The Photonics Group at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Electrical Engineering Division of the Advanced Engineering and Technologies Directorate has been involved in the design, development, characterization, qualification, manufacturing, integration and anomaly analysis of optical fiber subsystems for over a decade. The group supports a variety of instrumentation across NASA and outside...

NASA Electronic Parts and Packaging (NEPP) Program NEPP Task: Reliability of High-Voltage Tantalum Capacitors

Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs): Technology Readiness Overview (TRO)

Emerging photonics technologies will be critical for next generation high performance spacecraft which may include sensor applications generating unprecedented amounts of data. For example, future high resolution multi-wavelength sensor systems will require intensive data transfer and routing on-board satellites. Optical based data busses will have higher performance (e.g. bandwidth, size, etc....

Applications of optical fiber assemblies in harsh environments from NASA Electronic Parts & Packaging (NEPP): The journey past, present, and future

Over the past ten years, NASA has studied the effects of harsh environments on optical fiber assemblies for communication systems, lidar systems, and science missions. The culmination of this has resulted in recent technologies that are unique and tailored to meeting difficult requirements under challenging performance constraints. This presentation will focus on the past mission applications o...

Radiation Effects Expected for Fiber Laser/Amplifier Rare Earth Doped Optical Fiber

1.0 Introduction Fiber lasers are still considered an emerging technology because at the system level there exists no harsh environmental qualification data that is available to the public. Some vendors such as IPG claim to have thermal and vibration data on their units but NASA still needs to conduct validation analysis and testing to insure the technology will function as expected under harsh...