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Abstract
A 12-GHz fiber-optic system is a critical part of a test configuration that has been proposed for measuring the fractional frequency stability of the DSS-13 beamwaveguide (BWG) antenna. This fiber-optic system is used to carry Ku-band (12GHz) signals from a reference antenna to the DSS-13 BWG pedestal room. Tests performed only on the fiber-optic system portion of the overall test configuration showed that the 12-GHz fiber-optic system (installed at DSS-13) has a frequency stability of about 1.1 x 10-16 for sampling time + = 1000 sec for a nighttime run. This preliminary result establishes the lowest noise floor that can probably be achieved for the test configuration that will be used to measure the frequency stability of the DSS-13 BWG antenna.
Details
- Volume
- 42-109
- Published
- May 15, 1992
- Pages
- 105–113
- File Size
- 323.2 KB