Abstract� The beam energy is one of the important factors that affect space optical communications. The beam energy has a direct effect on communication link distance, detector SNR, communication BER and other parameters. To test and verify the related technologies in the space optical communications, the paper proposes a near-earth demonstration and verification experiment systems of emission and detection to the near-space optical communications, which have wavelength of 8tOnm-band, optical output power of 250mW, modulation ratio of 500Mbps, and achieve to link distance of 8-10 km and communication BER better than 10-8; analyzes the effect of collimator, electro-optic modulators and optical antenna elements on the beam power loss, beam diameter, divergence angle and other parameters in the system. Theoretical analysis and experimental results are basically consistent; the conclusions have great value on further research of the near-space and deep-space optical communications.