Influence of satellite vibration on optical communication performance for intersatellite laser links

Ma, Jing; Li, Xin; Yu, Siyuan; Tan, Liying; Han, Qin

doi:10.1007/s10043-012-0004-z

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“…Pointing loss could arise due to many reasons such as satellite vibration or platform jitter or any kind of stress in electronic or mechanical devices [144]. The effect of satellite vibration in the FSO system is described in [145]- [151]. Pointing error can also be caused due to the atmospheric turbulence-induced beam wander effect which can displace the beam from its transmit path [152].…”

Section: A Fso Uplink/downlinkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optical Communication in Space: Challenges and Mitigation Techniques

Kaushal

Kaddoum

2017

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Abstract-In recent years, free space optical (FSO) communication has gained significant importance owing to its unique features: large bandwidth, license free spectrum, high data rate, easy and quick deployability, less power and low mass requirements. FSO communication uses optical carrier in the near infrared (IR) band to establish either terrestrial links within the Earth's atmosphere or inter-satellite/deep space links or ground-to-satellite/satellite-to-ground links. It also finds its applications in remote sensing, radio astronomy, military, disaster recovery, last mile access, backhaul for wireless cellular networks and many more. However, despite of great potential of FSO communication, its performance is limited by the adverse effects (viz., absorption, scattering and turbulence) of the atmospheric channel. Out of these three effects, the atmospheric turbulence is a major challenge that may lead to serious degradation in the bit error rate (BER) performance of the system and make the communication link infeasible. This paper presents a comprehensive survey on various challenges faced by FSO communication system for ground-to-satellite/satellite-to-ground and inter-satellite links. It also provide details of various performance mitigation techniques in order to have high link availability and reliability. The first part of the paper will focus on various types of impairments that pose a serious challenge to the performance of optical communication system for ground-to-satellite/satellite-to-ground and inter-satellite links. The latter part of the paper will provide the reader with an exhaustive review of various techniques both at physical layer as well as at the other layers (link, network or transport layer) to combat the adverse effects of the atmosphere. It also uniquely presents a recently developed technique using orbital angular momentum for utilizing the high capacity advantage of optical carrier in case of space-based and near-Earth optical communication links. This survey provides the reader with comprehensive details on the use of space-based optical backhaul links in order to provide high capacity and low cost backhaul solutions.

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Section: A Fso Uplink/downlinkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optical Communication in Space: Challenges and Mitigation Techniques

Kaushal

Kaddoum

2017

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

1,353

721

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“…Pointing loss may happen due to small vibration of satellite, slight stress on mechanical or electronic devices, or jitter platform. A little misalignment between the transceivers could cause FSO link failure, thus, it is very essential to control LOS directivity with narrow beam divergence [207]. In addition, beam wandering effect may shift transmitted beam from the propagation path that cause pointing loss.…”

Section: E Fso In Space Communicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Proper care must be taken of vibration free FSO devices installation and maintain adequate bandwidth control to compensate residual jitter. Pointing error is more apparent for lower earth orbital (LEO) satellite than GEO satellite [207]. Pointing error considerably degrades the system performance in terms of BER and outage particularly at visible wavelength.…”

Section: E Fso In Space Communicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A contemporary survey on free space optical communication: Potentials, technical challenges, recent advances and research direction

Jahid

Alsharif

Hall

2022

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

169

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“…So, it is believed that the geometrical induced APT pointing error is smaller than 29.9 mrad. However, when the vibration intensity changes, the influence of geometrical induced error on the APT pointing accuracy is also different, [23] and this problem needs further analysis.…”

Section: Pointing Error Correction Experimentsmentioning

confidence: 99%