NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is developing a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) laser transmitter for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission. The laser transmitter is one of the potential contributions to the LISA mission from NASA. Our development effort has included a master oscillator (MO), a power amplifier (PA), a frequency reference system (FRS), a power monitor detector (PMON), and laser electronics module (LEM). We are working on their design, performance evaluation, environmental testing, and reliability testing for space flight. We have built TRL 4 laser optical modules based on the MO and PA, which meets most performance requirements. One of the TRL 4 laser optical modules has been delivered to ESA for independent evaluation. TRL 6 versions of MO and PA are being built and evaluated at GSFC. TRL 5 and 6 versions of laser electronics are under development. In this paper, we will describe our progress to date and plans to demonstrate and deliver a TRL 6 laser demonstrator system to ESA by 2024.


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    Title :

    Development of LISA Laser System at NASA


    Contributors:
    Kenji Numata (author) / Anthony Yu (author) / Clifford Brambora (author) / Jordan Camp (author) / Molly Fahey (author) / Ali Feizi (author) / Kevin Heesh (author) / Hua Jiao (author) / Oleg Konoplev (author) / Matthew Mullin (author)

    Conference:

    International Conference on Space Optics ; 2022 ; Dubrovnik, HR



    Publication date :

    2022-09-23


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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