Stabilized Photonic Links for Deep Space Tracking, Navigation, and Radio Science Applications

S. Huang and R. L. Tjoelker

Abstract:	Stable fiber optic links have been operational in NASA’s DSN for over 20 years providing distribution limited fractional frequency stability below 10 -14 at one second and reaching 10 -18 at ~10,000 seconds. We summarize recent stabilized photonic link developments for DSN operation capable of high performance and reliability, and at much lower cost than previous systems. Recent research has focused on two applications, 1) actively stabilized links to transport 100 MHz metrology frequency references to sites up to 30 km from the central atomic frequency standard, and 2) stabilized links transporting broadband S, X, and Ka band signals used in deep space tracking and navigation and antenna arraying applications.
Published in:	Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting November 14 - 17, 2011 Hyatt Regency Long Beach Long Beach, California
Pages:	1 - 8
Cite this article:	Huang, S., Tjoelker, R. L., "Stabilized Photonic Links for Deep Space Tracking, Navigation, and Radio Science Applications," Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, Long Beach, California, November 2011, pp. 1-8.
Full Paper:	ION Members/Non-Members: 1 Download Credit Sign In