Abstract
Design, performance, and environmental screening of flight prototype Ytterbium amplifiers designed for the Mars Laser Communications Demonstration are described. The high- reliability design delivered >8-W average power with low-duty-cycle PPM waveforms and >21% electrical-to-optical conversion efficiency.
© 2007 Optical Society of America
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