Monday 21 November 2011

Fri 18 Nov: Meeting (4): Minutes

1. What has been done since the last meeting

Sam: - photodiodes write up (pin and APD) - why we went for pin
- which material using for photodiode
- noise calculation

John: - considered problems with power

Natalie: - found questions about splicing - costs and how to go about splicing (buying/hiring machine)
- found general costs

James: - re-did calculations with new values
- power down to 0.4 W minimum

2. Questions


Splicing: flat fee for renting a splicer and standard price of each splice

(did not write down everything - if there were any important bits I missed please let me know)

3. What needs to be done


- costs, blog entries and final equations
- technical document
- actual manufacturers

4. Technical Document


- Intro & how team divided
- Each component - specifications and how it works (print out webpage/screen shots)
- Calculations
- Summary - why our system is good (e.g. 20MHz bandwidth would give 8MHz free, etc)
- Extra stuff to consider: burying cable
- Costs

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