Title :
Space flight applications of optical fiber; 30 years of space flight success
Author_Institution :
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a review on NASA´s space flight missions using optical fibre technologies. A variety of instrumentation has been built and flown exploiting the advances that optical fiber components have experienced over the last twenty years. All the NASA missions using optical fiber as a transmission link have never reported on-board failures related to the technology.
Keywords :
aerospace instrumentation; optical fibres; on-board failures; optical fiber technology; space flight applications; transmission link; Aerospace electronics; Instruments; NASA; Optical fibers; Photonics; Space missions;
Conference_Titel :
Avionics Fiber-Optics and Photonics Technology Conference (AVFOP), 2010 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Denver, CO
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5312-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5313-9
DOI :
10.1109/AVFOP.2010.5637515
