"The First ESA-NASA Working Meeting on Optoelectronics:

 - Fiber Optic System Technologies in Space”

5^th and 6^th of October 2005

Einstein Hall

ESTEC/ESA

Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Program of presentations

WEDNESDAY 5 OCTOBER 2005

09:00     START OF THE DAY

Opening

ESA

Overview of Usage and Testing of Optical Fiber Components in Space Environments, Survey 2005

Suzzanne Falvey - NORTHRUP GRUMMAN and Lee Thienel – JACKSON AND TULL

Fiber Optic Links in the ESA SMOS mission

Martin Mosberger and Peter Mueller - CONTRAVES SPACE (Switzerland)

JPL Lessons Learned with Space Based Optical Fiber Packaging

Cheryl Asbury - JPL NASA (USA)

Applications of Fiber Amplifiers for Space

D. Barry Coyle - GSFC NASA (USA)

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

ISS Programmatic Journey for Optical Fiber Links

David Gill - BOEING (ISS JSC) (USA)

The European experience in using fiber optics in the Columbus Module for the ISS

C. Canovai, K. Mellab  ESA (The Netherlands)

a. Radiation Effects on Optical Fibers

    Jochen Kuhnhenn – FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE (Germany)

b. Radiation Effects in Tunable Lasers

    Tom Farell – INTUNE TECHNOLOGIES (Ireland)

c. Fiber Optic in the ESA SMART-1 mission to the Moon

    Imke Kuester – LEONI FIBER OPTIK (Germany)

13:00-14:00  LUNCH BREAK

Fiber Optic Gyroscope for the Plancke and Pleiades missions

Thomas Buret –IXSPACE (France)

Space Qualification of a fiber Optic Sensors system for the X-38 vehicle

Arnd Rautlinger - KAYSER-THREDE (Germany)

Randezvous Sensor on ATV: Fiber Optic Line of E-box and Optical Head

Bettina Moebius - JENA-OPTRONIK (Germany)

Fiber optic components in the Laser Communications Terminal on TerraSAR-X

Ulrich Hildebrand – TeSAT (Germany)

THURSDAY 6 OCTOBER 2005

09:00 START OF THE DAY

Tutorial:   Qualification of Commercial Optical Fiber Components for Space Environments

Melanie Ott - GSFC NASA (USA)

Heritage and Lessons Learned for Optical Fiber Devices in Space

Martin Seifert – NUFERN (USA)

Space Flight Heritage Optical Fiber Cable

Doug Hardy - W.L. GORE (USA)

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

Fiber optics connectorisation in the spacecraft environment

Marco Luisoni & Carlo Holdener – DIAMOND (Switzerland)

Study Results of the International Space Station Optical Fiber Failure Analysis

Henning Leidecker -GSFC NASA (USA)--Note presentation did not take place,

(Martin Seifert from Nufern gave verbal brief explanation based on report)

a. CNES: Laser and fibre components qualification results

Linda Mondin – CNES (France)

b. Fiber Optics in CNES missions- Opto-pyrotechnics experiment in DEMETER

Denis Dilhan –CNES (France)

c. Opto-pyrotechnical technology for Space Applications: Problem Statement for Launch Vehicles

Patrick Farfal. EADS SPACE TRANSPORTATION (France)

13:00-14:00 LUNCH BREAK

Fiber Optics in Space Missions: The experience from Japan

Yoshinori Arimoto  - NICT  (Japan)

Fiber Optic Sensor System Demonstrator in PROBA II satellite

Roman Kruzelecky-MPB Communications (Canada)

15:00 DISCUSSION

Opening with input on CSA interest in Fiber Optic technologies

Darius Nikanpour-CSA (Canada)

18:00 END OF THE DAY