PHOTONIC REMOTING OF THE KWAJALEIN MISSILE RANGE POST IMPACT TELEMETRY SYSTEM

• Main Authors: Abouzahra, Mohamed D., Robey, Frank C., Henion, Scott
• Other Authors: MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Language: en_US
• Published: International Foundation for Telemetering 1999
• Subjects: Fiber Optic Link; RF Remoting; Long Distance Remoting; Wavelength Division Multiplexing; Multiple Antenna Remoting
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/607308; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/607308

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1999 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada === This paper describes the design, configuration, testing, and performance of a Fiber Optic Link used to transmit the signals from a remotely located S-band telemetry system to the main facility at the Kwajalein Missile Range (KMR). This fiber optic system demonstrates for the first time the feasibility of linking RF data from multiple antennas via a single fiber and over a nearly 100-km distance. Measured data of key link parameters such as gain, bit-error-rate, crosstalk, phase and gain stability, dynamic range, and noise figure are presented.