The Interplanetary Network Progress Report

Volume 42-162

Joseph H. Yuen
Editor in Chief


August 15, 2005


National Aeronautics and
Space Administration

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California


Contents

Preface

List of Changes

A Ka-Band Wideband-Gap Solid-State Power Amplifier: Architecture Identification
P. Khan, L. Epp, and A. Silva

Ka-Band Wideband-Gap Solid-State Power Amplifier: General Architecture Considerations
P. Khan, L. Epp, and A. Silva

The SUMPLE Algorithm for Aligning Arrays of Receiving Radio Antennas: Coherence Achieved with Less Hardware and Lower Combining Loss
D. H. Rogstad

Deep-Space Optical Communications Link Availability and Data Volume
A. Biswas and S. Piazzolla

Propagation Loss for Trans-Horizon Interferences in the Regions Surrounding Deep Space Network Complexes
C. Ho, K. Angkasa, P. Kinman, and T. Peng

Development of a Multi-Channel Dielectric Resonator Oscillator for Space Communication Applications
M. S. Dennis, N. R. Mysoor, and B. M. Cook

A Tracking Performance Comparison of the Conventional Data Transition Tracking Loop (DTTL) with the Linear Data Transition Tracking Loop (LDTTL)
M. K. Simon

Turning Fiction Into Non-fiction for Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimation---The Time-Multiplexed and Adaptive Split-Symbol Moments Estimator
M. Simon and S. Dolinar

Computing the Apparent Elevation of a Near-Earth Spacecraft at Low Elevation Angles for an Arbitrary Refraction Model
R. C. Tausworthe

Determination of Angular Separation Between Spacecraft and Quasars with the Very Long Baseline Array
G. Lanyi, J. Border, J. Benson, V. Dhawan, E. Fomalont, T. Martin-Mur, T. McElrath, J. Romney, and C. Walker

Review of Applications of Whispering-Gallery Mode Resonators in Photonics and Nonlinear Optics
A. B. Matsko, A. A. Savchenkov, D. Strekalov, V. S. Ilchenko, and L. Maleki

Referees


The research described in this publication was carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, service, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement by the United States Government or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.


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