National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents Preface
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
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
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
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