5.625 Gbps bidirectional laser communications measurements between the NFIRE satellite and an Optical Ground Station

Fields, R. A.; Kozlowski, D.A.; Yura, H. T.; Wong, R.L.; Wicker, Josef M.; Lunde, C.; Gregory, Mark A; Wandernoth, B.; Heine, F.

doi:10.1109/icsos.2011.5783708

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“…In 2008, the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (NICT) successfully performed a 50 Mbps optical link at 847 nm between the OICETS LEO satellite and an optical ground station (OGS) [4]. In 2010, a bidirectional transmission at 5.625 Gbps, 1064 nm has been made between a LEO satellite NFIRE and the related optical ground station [5]. On June, 2014, the OPALS demonstration instrument from NASA successfully transmitted the first video message of 170 Mb from the ISS to the ground station of JPL at 50 Mbps by modulating the beam from a 2.5 W laser at 1550 nm [6].…”

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Telecom & scintillation first data analysis for DOMINO - laser communication between SOTA, onboard socrates satellite, and MEO OGS

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Samain

Maurice

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS)

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In collaboration between CNES, NICT, Geoazur, the first successful lasercom link between the micro-satellite SOCRATES and a non-Japanese OGS has been established. This paper presents some results of telecom and scintillation first data analysis for 4 successful links in June & July 2015 between SOTA terminal and Meo optical ground station (OGS) at Caussols France. The telecom and scintillation data have been continuously recorded during the passes by using a detector developed at the laboratory. An irradiance of 190 nW/m² and 430 nW/m² has been detected for 1549 nm and 976 nm downlinks at 35° elevation. Spectrums of power fluctuation measured at OGS are analyzed at different elevation angles and at different diameters of telescope aperture to determine fluctuations caused by pointing error (due to satellite & OGS telescope vibrations) and caused by atmospheric turbulence. Telecom signal forms and bit error rates (BER) of 1549 nm and 976 nm downlink are also shown at different diameters of telescope aperture. BER is 'Error Free' with full-aperture 1.5m telescope, and almost in 'good channel' with 0.4 m sub-aperture of telescope.

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Telecom & scintillation first data analysis for DOMINO - laser communication between SOTA, onboard socrates satellite, and MEO OGS

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Samain

Maurice

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS)

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“…Being operational since February 2008, these terminals developed by Tesat were used for both, technology demonstrating purposes as well as campaigns with scientific objectives [7]. Accommodated on LEO satellites they world-wide first demonstrated bit error rates (BER), burst errors, acquisition duration and acquisition probability of inter-satellite links with a data rate a hundred times larger than SILEX, 5.625 Gbps.…”

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Laser communication applied for EDRS, the European data relay system

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Future earth observation satellites call for GEO relay links to make their data immediately available to the user. While RF communication limits the GEO relay's data rate to roughly 1 Gbps (Gigabit per second) laser communication will extend its capacity into the 10 Gbps range as is required for the future systems. Laser communication will be applied for EDRS, the European data GEO relay system. At first, it is foreseen to provide the RF LEO-to-GEO link with an additional laser communication channel, still limiting, of course, the GEO relay's performance to the RF bottleneck. However besides the operational service, the EDRS laser terminals shall also demonstrate the performance of high data rate links for both, the inter-satellite link and the GEO-to-ground link.

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“…[11] [12] But the low receive power and low receive power stability can also limit the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of satellite to ground laser communication links.…”

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High-data rate differential phase shift keying receiver for satellite-to-ground optical communication link

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The high data-rate satellite-to-ground coherent optical communication link is limited because the phase front of a beam is impaired when passing through the atmospheric turbulence. Based on the interference of two successive data bits in an unequal arm-length Mach-Zehnder delay interferometer, a differential phase shift keying receiver is designed for high data-rate satellite-to-ground coherent optical communication links due to its immunity of the wave front impairment when passing through the atmospheric turbulence. In the time-delay self-homodyne interferometric detection used in 2×4 90 degree optical hybrid, the optical path difference corresponds to the duration of one bit. The optical path difference is stabilized to below one thousandth of the wavelength by moving a finely motorized platform with the close-loop control using the phase feedback from the outputs of the 90 degree hybrid. The 2.5 Gbps optical communication link has already been verified between two buildings over a distance of 2.4km in the worse-case atmospheric conditions. The design and experimental results are given in this paper.Keywords: differential phase shift keying receiver, coherent optical communication link, self-homodyne interferometric detection, 2×4 90 degree optical hybrid, balanced receiver, direct detection DPSK, Mach-Zehnder interferometer, Michelson interferometer

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5.625 Gbps bidirectional laser communications measurements between the NFIRE satellite and an Optical Ground Station

Cited by 32 publications

References 7 publications

Telecom & scintillation first data analysis for DOMINO - laser communication between SOTA, onboard socrates satellite, and MEO OGS

Telecom & scintillation first data analysis for DOMINO - laser communication between SOTA, onboard socrates satellite, and MEO OGS

Laser communication applied for EDRS, the European data relay system

High-data rate differential phase shift keying receiver for satellite-to-ground optical communication link

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