Design and Flight Qualification of the ICESat-2 Laser Transmitters

Nicholas Sawruk; Ed Sullivan; Slava Litvinovitch; Patrick Burns; Ryan Edwards; Khoa Le; Ted Wysocki; John Iskander; Andre VanTuijl; Joe Rudd; Jim Bautch; Elias Fakhoury; Selma Tint; Floyd Hovis

doi:10.1364/LSC.2015.LW4D.2

Imaging and Applied Optics 2015
OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2015),
paper LW4D.2
•https://doi.org/10.1364/LSC.2015.LW4D.2

Design and Flight Qualification of the ICESat-2 Laser Transmitters

Nicholas Sawruk, Ed Sullivan, Slava Litvinovitch, Patrick Burns, Ryan Edwards, Khoa Le, Ted Wysocki, John Iskander, Andre VanTuijl, Joe Rudd, Jim Bautch, Elias Fakhoury, Selma Tint, and Floyd Hovis

Applications of Lasers for Sensing and Free Space Communications 2015

Arlington, Virginia United States
7–11 June 2015
ISBN: 978-1-943580-00-2

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N. Sawruk, E. Sullivan, S. Litvinovitch, P. Burns, R. Edwards, K. Le, T. Wysocki, J. Iskander, A. VanTuijl, J. Rudd, J. Bautch, E. Fakhoury, S. Tint, and F. Hovis, "Design and Flight Qualification of the ICESat-2 Laser Transmitters," in Imaging and Applied Optics 2015, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2015), paper LW4D.2.

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Abstract

The design and qualification of ICESat-2 lasers began in July 2009 with a contract to build a flight prototype and completed in January 2015 with the successful testing of the flight qualification unit. This paper reviews the numerous technical and programmatic trades between these two events.

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