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Optical Filter Assembly for Interplanetary Optical Communications

Abstract

Ground-based, narrow-band, high throughput optical filters are required for optical links from deep space. We report on the development of a tunable filter assembly that operates at telecommunication window of 1550 nanometers. Low insertion loss of 0.5 decibels and bandwidth of 90 picometers over a 2000 nanometers operational range of detectors has been achieved.

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Chen, Yijiang, Hemmati, Hamid. 2013-02-05. Optical Filter Assembly for Interplanetary Optical Communications. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20150007780

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