In this paper we examine the various components that conceivably may be used in fiber lasers, together with a suggested Taxonomy for testing these classes of parts. These classes include passives, actives and active modules. Test protocol is suggested for qualification based on current methodologies employed in the fiber optic communications industry, but adapted to space conditions. These modifications include the additional environmental conditions imposed by space, namely thermal, vibration and radiation. Additionally, this test protocol is verified by executing a series of vibration, thermal (including vacuum) and radiation tests to examine its validity. A selected set of recently-developed commercial off-the-shelf fiber optic components (at 106x nm) are chosen for these tests. These include doped fibers, combiners, sources, pumps, isolators and fiber Bragg gratings. The scope for this work is limited to the environmental conditions of lower Earth orbit satellites, 100 to 1000km orbital altitude and up to 60 degrees inclination.


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    Title :

    Overview of qualification protocol of fiber lasers for space applications


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Fiber Lasers III: Technology, Systems, and Applications ; 2006 ; San Jose,California,United States


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2006-02-16





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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