A noise-gated PLL for clock recovery in a free-space laser communication system
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Lund, Gavin
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Noise-gated phase-locked loop for clock recovery in a free-space laser communication system
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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James K. Roberge and Robert J. Murphy.
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In this thesis, I developed a phase-locked loop system for data clock recovery in a free-space laser communication application. The clock recovery unit is designed to operate at extremely low optical received power, tolerate a fading channel, and also account for Doppler effects. I explored the feasibility of adding a noise-gating system to the clock recovery unit in order to improve link margin in low-data-rate scenarios. I measured key system performance metrics, such as bandwidth, rejection, lock range and phase noise, and tested system integration with the existing optical communications testbed.
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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 67).
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2012Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer SciencePublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.