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NASA NTRS1987

Multiple-pass laser-diode-pumped Nd:YAG amplifier - Design

A method for designing a miniature laser-diode-pumped Nd-YAG laser amplifier based on total internal reflection and a multiple-pass slab geometry is described. This new design leads to a simple and practical configuration which allows multiple-pass amplification to be accomplished fairly easily by utilizing an optical arrangement with external mirrors. It is suggested that this type of miniature Nd-YAG amplifier combined with a laser diode-pumped Nd:YAG oscillator could result in an excellent laser-ranging source laser.

Chan, Kinpui↗

NASA NTRS1988

Electrically-Isolating Analog Amplifier

Signals transmitted between units at different ground potentials. Analog amplifier electrically isolates input from output through use of optoelectronic components. Analog isolation amplifier uses dual-transistor optoisolator, preventing transmission of common-mode voltage from input to output. Circuit useful in spacecraft electronic systems.

Paulkovich, John↗

NASA NTRS1987

A 2.3-GHz cryogenically cooled HEMT amplifier for DSS 13

A prototype 2.3 GHz (S band) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) amplifier/closed cycle refrigerator (CCR) system was installed in the DDS-13 feedcone, replacing the 2.3 GHz maser. The amplifier is cryogenically cooled to a physical temperature of 12 K and provides 31.5 K antenna system noise temperature and 29 dB of gain. The HEMT device used in the amplifier is a prototype.

Tanida, L.↗

NASA NTRS1988

Master oscillator power amplifier performance of Ti:Al2O3

An improved Ti:Al2O3 amplifier model is reported. Amplifier performance under various pump and probe fluence conditions is also reported. It is claimed to be in good agreement with the numerical model predictions.

Barnes, James C.↗

NASA NTRS1988

An 8.4-GHz cryogenically cooled HEMT amplifier for DSS 13

A prototype 8.4 GHz (X-band) high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) amplifier/closed cycle refrigerator system was installed in the Deep Space Station 13 feedcone in August 1987. The amplifier is cryogenically cooled to a physical temperature of 12 K and provides 31 K antenna noise temperature (zenith) and 35 dB of gain at a frequency of 8.2 to 8.6 GHz. Antenna system noise temperature is less than 50 K from 7.2 to 9.4 MHz. The low noise HEMT amplifier system is intended for use as a radio astronomy or space communications receiver front end.

Tanida, L.↗

NASA NTRS1988

Efficient 30-W, 140-MHz rf amplifier for CW CO2 waveguide laser excitation

Details of a 30-W, 140-MHz rf amplifier for CW CO2 waveguide laser excitation are presented. The amplifier delivers 30 W into a 50-Ohm load while requiring only 40 W of dc power from a 28-V supply and 100 mW of rf drive power for an overall efficiency of 75 percent. A coupling-starting network design theory is given that provides the initiation over voltage for the discharge plasma from an rf power source of limited output voltage capability. The network then matches the drive circuit to the new input impedance of the operating discharge without any adjustments. This design theory applies to the whole class of networks whose losses can be approximated by a loss conductance in parallel with the gas discharge.

Hochuli, U. E.↗

NASA NTRS1990

32-GHz Wideband Maser Amplifier

High-gain, wideband, microwave amplifier based on ruby cooled by liquid helium. Features include low input equivalent noise temperature and 400-MHz bandwidth. Design basically extension of previous reflected-wave masers built for frequency range of 18 to 26 GHz. Maser amplifier includes eight stages connected in reflected-wave configuration. Particularly useful for detection of weak microwave signals in radio astronomy and communications.

Shell, J. S.↗

NASA NTRS1990

External Peltier Cooler For Low-Noise Amplifier

Inexpensive Peltier-effect cooling module made of few commercially available parts used to reduce thermal noise in microwave amplifier. Retrofitted to almost any microwave low-noise amplifier or receiver preamplifier used in communication, telemetry, or radar. Includes copper or aluminum cold plate held tightly against unit to be cooled by strap-type worm-gear clamps.

Soper, Terry A.↗

NASA NTRS1988

Development of FIR arrays with integrating amplifiers

The development of optimized photoconductor arrays suitable for far infrared space astronomical applications are described. Although the primary impetus is the production of a 16 by 16 element Ge:Ga demonstration array for SIRTF, the extension of this technology to Large Deployable Reflector (LDR) is considered. The optimization of Ge:Ga and Ge:Be photoconductor materials is discussed. In collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, measurements of FIR photoconductors with quantum efficiencies greater than 20 percent at 100 micrometers, and dark currents below 300 electrons/s are presented. Integrating J-FET amplifier technology is discussed. The current generation of integrating amplifiers has a demonstrated read noise of less than 20 electrons for an integration time of 100 s. The design is shown for a stackable 16 x n Ge:Ga array that utilizes a 16-channel monolithic version of the J-FET integrator. A part of the design is the use of a thin, thermally insulating substrate that allows the electronics to operate at the optimum temperature of 50 K while maintaining thermal and optical isolation from the detectors at 2 K. The power dissipation for the array is less than 16 mW. The array design may particularly be applicable to high resolution imaging spectrometers for LDR.

Young, Erick T.↗

NASA NTRS1990

Direct solar-pumped iodine laser amplifier

The optimum conditions of a solar pumped iodine laser are found in this research for the case of a continuous wave operation and a pulsed operation. The optimum product of the pressure(p) inside the laser tube and the tube diameter(d) was pd=40 approx. 50 torr-cm on the contrary to the case of a high intensity flashlamp pumped iodine laser where the optimum value of the product is known to be pd=150 torr-cm. The pressure-diameter product is less than 1/3 of that of the high power iodine laser. During the research period, various laser materials were also studied for solar pumping. Among the laser materials, Nd:YAG is found to have the lowest laser threshold pumping intensity of about 200 solar constant. The Rhodamine 6G was also tested as the solar pumped laser material. The threshold pumping power was measured to be about 20,000 solar constant. The amplification experiment for a continuously pumped iodine laser amplifier was performed using Vortek solar simulator and the amplification factors were measured for single pass amplification and triple pass amplification of the 15 cm long amplifier tube. The amplification of 5 was obtained for the triple pass amplification.

Han, Kwang S.↗

NASA NTRS1990

Performance of alumina-supported Pt catalysts in an electron-beam-sustained CO2 laser amplifier

The performance of an alumina-supported Pt catalyst system used to maintain the gas purity in an electron-beam-sustained (636) isotope CO2 laser amplifier has been tested. The system characteristics using the two-zone, parallel flow reactor were determined for both continuous- and end-of-day reactor operation using on-line mass spectrometric sampling. The laser amplifier was run with an energy loading of typically 110 J-l/atm and an electron-beam current of 4 mA/sq cm. With these conditions and a pulse repetition frequency of 10 Hz for up to 10,000 shots, increases on the order of 100 ppm O2 were observed with the purifier on and 150 ppm with it off. The 1/e time recovery time was found to be approximately 75 minutes.

Cunningham, D. L.↗

NASA NTRS1989

AlGaAs/InGaAs heterostructures with doped channels for discrete devices and monolithic amplifiers

AlGaAs/InGaAs/GaAs-type heterostructure with one or two doped channels have been used to fabricate both discrete devices and monolithic amplifiers for millimeter-wave operation. Maximum current densities of 1 A/mm and maximum transconductances of 530 mS/mm were obtained. 0.25 x 50 micron discrete devices delivered a power density of 1 W/mm with 2.9-dB gain and 25 percent efficiency at 60 GHz. A 100-micron monolithic one-stage amplifier demonstrated 93 mW (0.93-W/mm power density) at 31.5 GHz with 4.2-dB gain and 29 percent efficiency. A record 34 percent efficiency was achieved with a 53.7-mW output power and 4.8-dB gain.

Saunier, Paul↗

NASA NTRS1989

Far field beam pattern of one MW combined beam of laser diode array amplifiers for space power transmission

The far-field beam pattern and the power-collection efficiency are calculated for a multistage laser-diode-array amplifier consisting of about 200,000 5-W laser diode arrays with random distributions of phase and orientation errors and random diode failures. From the numerical calculation it is found that the far-field beam pattern is little affected by random failures of up to 20 percent of the laser diodes with reference of 80 percent receiving efficiency in the center spot. The random differences in phases among laser diodes due to probable manufacturing errors is allowed to about 0.2 times the wavelength. The maximum allowable orientation error is about 20 percent of the diffraction angle of a single laser diode aperture (about 1 cm). The preliminary results indicate that the amplifier could be used for space beam-power transmission with an efficiency of about 80 percent for a moderate-size (3-m-diameter) receiver placed at a distance of less than 50,000 km.

Kwon, Jin H.↗

NASA NTRS1989

The effects of feedback amplifier characteristics on constant temperature hot-wire anemometer systems

The 3rd-order analysis of Perry and Morrison (1971) was extended to 7th-order by Watmuff (1987) by including both the bridge-capacitance and the frequency-response characteristics of the feedback amplifier. In this paper, the bridge capacitance has been excluded from the analysis. The influence of the gain K, roll-off frequency f(A), and offset voltage E(qi) of the feedback amplifier are examined in more detail together with their interactions with the bridge inductance.

Watmuff, J. H.↗

NASA NTRS1991

22 W coherent GaAlAs amplifier array with 400 emitters

Greater than 22 W of optical power has been demonstrated from a multiple-emitter, traveling-wave semiconductor amplifier, with approximately 87 percent of the output at the frequency of the injection source. The device integrates, in AlGaAs graded-index separate-confinement heterostructure single quantum well (GRINSCH-SQW) epitaxy, 400 ridge waveguide amplifiers with a coherent optical signal distribution circuit on a 12 x 6 mm chip.

Krebs, D.↗

NASA NTRS1992

Spatial Light Amplifier Modulators

Spatial light amplifier modulators (SLAM's) are conceptual devices that effect two-dimensional spatial modulation in optical computing and communication systems. Unlike current spatial light modulators, these provide gain. Optical processors incorporating SLAM's designed to operate in reflection or transmission mode. Each element of planar SLAM array is optical amplifier - surface-emitting diode laser. Array addressed electrically with ac modulating signals superimposed on dc bias currents supplied to lasers. SLAM device provides both desired modulation and enough optical gain to enable splitting of output signal into many optical fibers without excessive loss of power.

Eng, Sverre T.↗

NASA NTRS1992

Solid-State Power Amplifier For 61.5 GHz

Power amplifiers based on impact-avalanche-transit-time (IMPATT) diodes developed for operation in communication systems at frequencies near 60 GHz. Built in seven modular stages, power transferred through sections of waveguide and isolator/circulator assemblies. Intended as replacements for bulkier and heavier traveling-wave-tube amplifiers.

Powers, Michael K.↗

NASA NTRS1992

Ideal photon number amplifier and duplicator

The photon number-amplification and number-duplication mechanism are analyzed in the ideal case. The search for unitary evolutions leads to consider also a number-deamplification mechanism, the symmetry between amplification and deamplification being broken by the integer-value nature of the number operator. Both transformations, amplification and duplication, need an auxiliary field which, in the case of amplification, turns out to be amplified in the inverse way. Input-output energy conservation is accounted for using a classical pump or through frequency-conversion of the fields. Ignoring one of the fields is equivalent to considering the amplifier as an open system involving entropy production. The Hamiltonians of the ideal devices are given and compared with those of realistic systems.

Dariano, G. M.↗