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I would imagine it's because electrical amplifiers, filters, and other such items are cheap and well understood. Whereas optical amplifiers, filters, and other
by MadnessASAP 2y ago
I would imagine it's because electrical amplifiers, filters, and other such items are cheap and well understood. Whereas optical amplifiers, filters, and other such things, particularly ones that operate at low-GHz frequencies are expensive and kinda wild
- walrus01 2y agowell, an optical amplifier wouldn't do anything at all attached to a waveguide into a feed horn, in something like a 6.3 meter ku or c band cassegrain antenna design antenna aimed at a geostationary satellite... that's the job for a BUC/SSPA. You need. it needs to be RF. rf over fiber in a satellite teleport application is more about being able to separate the modem from the antenna-mounted LNB and BUC/SSPA which might be some distance away.