Diplex fiber-optic link part of Goldstone Deep Space Communications complex. Relatively inexpensive equipment delivers signals of high quality. At central station, signal combiner adds 5-MHz reference-frequency signal and 36-bit time-code signal, forming composite signal, which modulates light transmitted along optical fiber. At remote station, fiber-optic receiver detects composite signal and provides input to diplexer, which separates frequency reference signal from time-code signal. Signals then amplified to desired levels.
Diplex Fiber-Optic Link For Frequency And Time Signals
NASA Tech Briefs ; 15 , 6
1991-06-01
Miscellaneous
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English
Tema Archive | 1974
|Fiber-Optic Frequency-Transfer Link
NTRS | 1990
|Fiber-Optic Link for Transmission of a Reference Frequency
Online Contents | 1996