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This paper will address the application of optical free space communication to distributed network architecture. High
speed optical links in digital and/or analog forms enable new satellite and land based communication and sensing system
architectures with significantly enhanced system performance over conventional single platform architectures. These
applications include: RF communications supported by multiple spatially separated satellites or cellular-like base
stations performing beam forming and nulling and long baseline interferometry over multiple platforms for sensing. We
will examine both the physical transport design of the optical free space links and their architecture implications.
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Cone tracking is a well known method to optimize the pointing of a beam, and has been previously reported in
the case of direct mode free-space optical communication (FSOC) links, using a beacon or a dedicated wavelength to carry the feed-back. In a retro link, because the beam is reflected back to the transmitter, feedback data is locally
available. We present here the results of an evaluation (both simulation and experiments) of the cone tracking technique
applied to a retro link and how the implementation can be optimized for this specific case. We show that using only a
small number of samples (as low as 16 with 625 Hz modulation frequency) we can retrieve the beam offset. We also
show how the technique can be used to estimate the beam wander. We finally demonstrate cone tracking (closed loop
maintaining the beam center on the retro-reflector) with modulation amplitude as low as 1% of the beam divergence.
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It is necessary, on the ground in a laboratory, to test the technical parameters and to verify the working performance for
the optical pointing, acquisition and tracking (PAT) of an inter-satellite lasercom terminal. In this paper, we report a
completed PAT test-bed for this aim. The test-bed works in a fully physical way and is an integration of a 2D optical
scanner of two rotating prisms, a 2D fine beam deflector of two tilting optical wedges and a double-focus laser
collimator, the overall aperture is about Φ440mm.
The optical scanner is designed to scan the beam in the range of 30° with an accuracy of 100μrad and used to simulate
the mutual movement between two satellites. The fine beam deflector has the maximum beam deviation of about 1mrad
with a step of 0.5μrad and is used to measure the tracking error of a terminal. The collimator has the double focal
lengths, respectively, of 1.5m and 10m, the former provides a wide view of field for the use in the acquisition process of
the terminal and the latter a narrow view of field for the use in the tracking process. In this paper, the design and
fabrication considerations of the PAT test-bed as well as the main specifications of the completed integrated test-bad are given.
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The potential of lasercom could often be much more attractive to system designers if the terminals could be made very
small. In particular, in systems where one end of the link is allowed to be somewhat more capable than the other, the
lesser of the two terminals could take advantage of the asymmetry and shrink as much as possible. We have investigated
how such asymmetry factors into the requirements for a small terminal and have designed a terminal with a very small
aperture (35-75 mm) and an inertial stabilization scheme. The space-worthy terminal has applicability to Moon-to-Earth
as well as near-Earth lasercom missions.
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Photon-counting is known to be the practically most efficient means
for detection of free-space optical communications. Data rates will
always be limited, however, by the speed at which such devices can
operate. We calculate here the performance one can expect as one
demands speeds so fast that device-limiting timing jitter substantially
corrupts the measurements.
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Traditional coarse pointing, acquisition, and tracking (CPAT) systems are pre-calibrated to have the center pixel
of the camera aligned to the laser pointing vector and the center pixel is manually moved to the target of interest
to complete the alignment process. Such a system has previously demonstrated its capability in aligning with
distant targets and the pointing accuracy is on the order of sensor resolution. However, aligning with targets at
medium range where the distance between angular sensor and transceiver is not negligible is its Achilles Heel.
This limitation can be resolved by imposing constraints, such as the trifocal tensor (TT), which is deduced from
the geometrical dependence between cameras and transceivers.
Two autonomous CPAT systems are introduced for FSO transceiver alignment in mid- and long-range scenarios.
This work focuses on experimental results that validate the pointing performance for targets at different
distances, backed up by the theoretical derivations. A mid-range CPAT system, applying a trifocal tensor as its
geometric invariant, includes two perspective cameras as sensors to perceive target distances. The long-range
CPAT system, applying linear mapping as the invariant, requires only one camera to determine the pointing
angle. Calibration procedures for both systems are robust to measurement noise and the resulting system can
autonomously point to a target of interest with a high accuracy, which is also on the order of sensor resolution.
The results of this work are not only beneficial to the design of CPAT systems for FSO transceiver alignment,
but also in new applications such as surveillance and navigation.
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We present a novel high-speed electro-optic beam scanner that provides a
significantly improved scanning angle, angular resolution, and response time. Compared
to conventional moving mirrors such as servo-controlled mirrors and galvanic mirrors,
the demonstrated laser scanning device can improve the response time by 100 times. The
presented device has many other unique features such as light weight, small dimension,
low power consumption, and no-moving components, which are particularly suitable for
airborne and space-borne applications. Electro-optic beam scanners are key components
in advanced laser radars, laser communication systems. It also has important commercial
applications in various fields such as display, printing, imaging, optical storage, optical
communication, and so on.
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For Free Space Optical Communication (FSOC) systems, employed on moving platform or communicating
with a moving remote terminal, the quality of the communication channel strongly depends upon the tracking
performance. In these systems quadrant Position Sensitive Detectors (PSD) are commonly used for beam tracking.
This paper presents the results of significantly improved performance in acquisition and tracking of the FSOC system
using a custom made 8-segments PSD and minimizing the tracking spot size on the detector.
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Optical wireless channels that use modulated retro-reflectors can provide low-data rate communications to self-powered
'smart-dust' motes. The retro-reflectors are illuminated using a base station that incorporates diffractive beamsteering to
direct radiation onto the motes, and these return the radiation to an imaging receiver within the base station. The motes
consist of a photodiode to provide power, a novel logarithmic receiver to receive data from the base station, and a
modulating retro-reflector to send information from the mote to the base station.
Several of the components elements of this system have been implemented and tested. In this paper we report a
logarithmic receiver that can be self powered by the source communicating with it, and a retro-reflecting LC modulator
component that operates at 30b/s when driven at 0.7V. In addition an overall system model, together with the challenges
for future work are presented.
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Networks of sensors are an emerging technology for real-time data gathering in applications such as pollution
monitoring, home security, surveillance, industrial control, etc. Many miniature nodes with sensing, computing and
wireless communication capabilities are randomly deployed in an area or volume to be probed. One of the possible
communication modalities for sensor networks is optical wireless communication (OWC). Initially, the sensor population
must be mapped prior to interrogation by the base station and data communication from the sensor node. In this paper we
review some theoretical and experimental work in this area and underline some of the challenges and possible solutions.
The specific scenario of wireless sensor networks in a disaster recovery operation is modeled.
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Earth-observation (EO) satellite missions produce a large amount of data using high-resolution optical or radar sensors.
During the last decades the amount of data has steadily increased due to improved sensor technologies with increased
temporal resolution, sensor resolution, and pixel count. As a consequence EO satellite missions have become limited by
the downlink data rates of microwave communication systems, which are inhibited by spectrum restrictions, manageable
antenna sizes, and available transmit power. Optical downlinks from EO satellites with data rates of several Gbps
mitigate the limiting effects of microwave communication systems; however optical links do not provide the necessary
link availability through the atmosphere due to cloud blockage above the ground station. Apart from diversity concepts
with several ground stations or satellite networks, a stratospheric High Altitude Platform (HAP) could act as a relay
station to forward the optical communication beam over the last 20km through the atmosphere to the ground station,
where short-range, high data-rate microwave systems are feasible. This paper will discuss the capabilities of HAP and
GEO relay stations to increase the downlink capacities of LEO satellites. Environmental aspects for the deployment of
HAP relays and regulatory/technology issues for a microwave downlink on the last 20km to the ground will be
discussed.
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Previous research at Montana State University led to the development of the Infrared Cloud Imager (ICI) for measuring
downwelling cloud and sky thermal emission for producing cloud coverage statistics using radiometrically calibrated
images of the sky. This technique, that was developed primarily for detection of clouds for studies of arctic climate,
provides benefits over commonly used systems by producing localized high resolution data in comparison to satellites
images, and, in contrast to visible systems, provides continuous day and night operation. As a continuation of the first
effort, in collaboration with the Optical Communications Group at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), here we
present a new generation of the ICI that can be used to monitor the cloud coverage of a site that can house a ground
telescope dedicated to Earth-space optical communication paths. This new instrument, based around the FLIR Photon
camera, expands the field of view (FOV) from 20° to 50° (up to 100° in the latest version), reduces instrument size,
reduces instrument cost, and extends the time between calibrations to hours instead of minutes. This has been
accomplished by characterizing the changes in the output data for changes in the camera's internal temperature while
viewing a constant source. Deployment of this instrument has taken place at JPL's Table Mountain facility, CA, and
Bozeman, MT.
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In free space optical (FSO) communication networks, pointing, acquisition, and tracking (PAT) techniques are needed to
establish and maintain optical links among the static or mobile nodes in the network. First, this paper describes a precise
pointing technique to steer the local directional laser beam of an optical transceiver to a target optical transceiver at a
remote transceiver node. The pointing technique utilizes Real-Time Kinematic GPS coordinates, local angular sensors,
and a reference baseline, to retrieve accurate navigation information (roll, pitch, yaw) of the mobile or static platform
that carries an optical transceiver. Through experiments using gimbal pointing stages, we have demonstrated "dead-reckoning"
pointing accuracy in the milliradian range in our outdoor testbed. Second, we provide an application example
of the pointing method in a bi-connected ring network, in which the pointing technique is combined with heuristic
algorithms for dynamic reconfiguration of ring network topology. The heuristic algorithms achieve near optimal
solutions in a short amount of time. Lastly, we present a GPS-based autonomous reconfiguration scenario for mobile
nodes, which combines the PAT technique and heuristic algorithms.
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Recent developments in pointing, acquisition, and tracking have enabled the formation of point-to-point FSO or narrow
beam directional wireless networks that are capable of dynamic changes in their topology. Autonomous changes to
topology in response to varying available link capacities and load demands of various nodes is called topology control.
Topology control consists of computing new topologies to dynamically optimize the network under changing traffic
conditions, and then carrying out the reconfiguration process to achieve the target topology. Our current work in this area
studies the process of topology reconfiguration by using the packet drops that happen during this process as a cost
metric. It is shown that the reconfiguration cost can be minimized when the target topology is reached by implementing
the topology reconfiguration as a series of smaller steps (successive approximations). It is also shown that a topology
computation algorithm that results in lower overall packet drops can be obtained by including the reconfiguration cost in
the objective function along with the typical objective of congestion minimization. Simulations are used to evaluate and
compare the performance of topology computation heuristics when the objective function includes reconfiguration cost.
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Next generation wireless networks are increasingly complex in terms of their heterogeneity (terminal, edge and backbone
nodes; directional and omnidirectional wireless links) and dynamic behavior (node mobility, atmospheric obscuration,
fading). Modeling such complex systems is becoming a very challenging and cumbersome mathematical problem. This
paper proposes a novel physics-based approach to the modeling, characterization and control of complex wireless
networks. Heterogeneous wireless networks are modeled as physical systems where nodes are represented as particles
and communication links as attraction forces between them. Forces are defined based on network connectivity and
include the effects of link distance, link directivity and atmospheric obscuration. The network energy usage is used as a
cost function that is shown to be related to the potential energy of the analogous physical system. We formulate the joint
coverage-connectivity optimization problem in backbone-based wireless networks as an energy minimization problem
and present a mobility control algorithm that mimics the natural reaction of a physical system to minimize potential
energy driven by local forces exerted on network nodes. Our mobility control algorithm is shown to be completely
distributed, scalable and self-organized. Initial results show the efficiency of our mobility control approach to
autonomously adjust the position of controlled backbone nodes in order to optimize coverage and connectivity in
dynamic scenarios.
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Turbulence inner scale affects scintillation in laser projection and laser communication systems especially in strong
scintillation regime. Analytical and numerical models are used for performance analysis and design of these systems.
Turbulence inner scale is critically important to anchor theoretical predictions to an experiment. However, the inner scale
is usually not measured in the experiments along extended atmospheric paths. Commercial scintillometer commonly
operates over the range of a few hundreds meters and requires an optical transmitter and receiver at different ends of the
propagation path. We introduced a concept for turbulence inner scale sensor, which is based on phase related
phenomenon and can operate along arbitrary atmospheric paths including the strong scintillation regime both during
daytime and nighttime. We evaluated the feasibility of this approach. We developed an analytical model for a tilt-corrected
point spread function (PSF) of a distant source that enables turbulence inner scale sensor determination from
optical measurements, evaluated the PSF sensitivity to the inner scale variations for ground-to-ground and space-to-ground
engagement scenarios, designed and built a sensor breadboard prototype Finally, for the first time we performed
turbulence inner scale measurements along space-to-ground propagation paths by imaging stars. We found that the
turbulence inner scale on space-to-ground paths is in the range from 1 cm to 3 cm, whereas it is in the range from 0.2 cm
to 1.2 cm near the ground. Thus, initial inner scale measurements by imaging stars revealed that turbulence inner scale
on extended elevated paths exceeds that value near the ground.
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In free-space optical communication links, atmospheric turbulence causes fluctuations in both the intensity and the phase
of the received light signal, affecting link performance.
Influence of Kolmogorov and non-Kolmogorov turbulence statistics on laser communication links are analyzed for
different propagation scenarios.
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Intensity fluctuations from a 532nm CW laser source were collected over an outdoor 1km path, 2m above the ground,
with three different receiving apertures. The scintillation index was found for each receiving aperture and recently
developed theory for all regimes of optical turbulence was used to infer three atmospheric parameters, Cn2, l0, and L0.
Parallel to the three-aperture data collection was a commercial scintillometer unit which reported Cn2 and crosswind
speed. There was also a weather station positioned at the receiver side which provided point measurements for
temperature and wind speed. The Cn2 measurement obtained from the commercial scintillometer was used to infer l0, L0,
and the scintillation index. Those values were then compared to the inferred atmospheric parameters from the
experimental data. Finally, the optimal aperture sizes for data collection with the three-aperture receiver were
determined.
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A new method of reconstructing and predicting an unknown probability density function (PDF) characterizing the
statistics of intensity fluctuations of optical beams propagating through atmospheric turbulence is presented in this
paper. The method is based on a series expansion of generalized Laguerre polynomials ; the expansion coefficients are
expressed in terms of the higher-order intensity moments of intensity statistics. This method generates the PDF from
the data moments without any prior knowledge of specific statistics and converges smoothly. The utility of
reconstructed PDF relevant to free-space laser communication in terms of calculating the average bit error rate and
probability of fading is pointed out. Simulated numerical results are compared with some known non-Gaussian test
PDFs: Log-Normal, Rice-Nakagami and Gamma-Gamma distributions and show excellent agreement obtained by the
method developed. The accuracy of the reconstructed PDF is also evaluated.
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The fades and background noise that are seen by the receiver(s) in clear atmospheric optical communication can be
mitigated with diversity and coherent receivers. However, in certain applications, one may need to be concerned with
not only fades/outages, but also with an interferer that may be actively trying to interfere with our communication by
sending his own optical signal towards our receiver(s). It is important to understand how our optical system performs in
the presence of such an interferer. In this paper, we describe two potential interferer strategies when our communication
system uses Diversity Direct Detection and two potential strategies when our system uses Diversity Homodyne
Detection. We also derive and plot the performance of our systems in these scenarios, both in the absence of and in the
presence of clear atmospheric turbulence. We find that if the interferer optimizes the fraction of bits over which it
spreads its power, it degrades the performance of our Diversity Direct Detection or Diversity Homodyne Detection
significantly more than if it were simply on all the time. Moreover, we find that the performance of Homodyne
Detection with no diversity and Direct Detection with no diversity are almost the same in the presence of analogous
interferers, and that diversity improves Homodyne Detection's performance while worsening Direct Detection's
performance.
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A performance metric is proposed as a general measure for optimizing the transverse coherence length lc of a partial
spatially coherent beam for a given communication scenario. The expression is essentially the mean intensity minus the
standard deviation of the intensity and we seek to maximize this quantity. It is preliminarily verified by the probability
of fade with log-normal distribution model under the weak turbulence condition. We also examine it as a function of lc
using wave optics simulations and compared these results with the relationships predicted by analytic theory under weak
to medium-strong turbulence conditions. Our results verify there exists a unique coherence length that can optimize the
receiver beam quality. After calculating the probability of fades of the optimal partially coherent beam and the fully
coherent beam and comparing them with the wave optics simulation results, good agreement was observed.
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In recent experimental research on adaptive control of jitter in laser beams, sufficiently high levels of high
frequency sensor noise have produced high frequency spikes in the output errors. The phenomenon has been
observed for both adaptive and high bandwidth linear-time-invariant (LTI) control loops. Recently, the source
of the problem has been discovered to be saturation associated with the MEMS fast steering mirror used as
the control actuator. Results in this paper demonstrate that the spikes in the output error are eliminated by a
recently developed frequency-weighting method for the tuning signal used to determine adaptive control gains.
The method places more weight on jitter in frequency ranges where large sensor noise otherwise produces the
unwanted response. The frequency-weighted adaptive control loop is based on a recursive least squares lattice
filter that implicitly identifies the disturbance statistics from real-time sensor data. The adaptive controller
achieves both fast adaptation and true minimum variance steady state performance. Results from an experiment
with a MEMS fast steering mirror used in current free space optical communications systems illustrate suppression
of jitter with simultaneous multiple bandwidths produced by multiple jitter sources.
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Experimental Measurements, Concepts, and Performance I
We present an optical heterodyne receiver for data rates up to 10 Gb/s. Its outer dimensions are 44x44x18 cm3, it
weighs 16.5 kg and consumes 70 W of power. This optical receiver is single-mode fiber coupled to distribute the
received signal from the outside of the spacecraft to the inside. This approach improves the ruggedness of the receiver
system against shocks and vibrations. Under an ESA funded project, the photodiodes of this receiver have passed space
qualification tests, such as Particle Impact Noise Detection tests, shock and vibration survivability, as well as proton and
gamma radiation exposure.
High receiver sensitivities (BER=1·10-9) of 390 photons/bit and 619 photons/bit were measured at 1550 nm for
differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) and on/off keying (OOK), respectively. No low noise optical preamplifier
(EDFA) was used in this case. These are one of the highest sensitivities reported for heterodyne detection of 10 Gb/s
signals without using optical amplification. Avoiding the use of an EDFA allows to adapt the coherent receiver to other
wavelengths such as 1064 nm. We also investigated the receiver sensitivity of the coherent receiver when combined
with a low noise optical preamplifier. For 10 Gb/s DPSK and OOK sensitivities of 74 photons/bit and 132 photons/bit
were measured, respectively.
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The design of optical transceivers for mobile free space optical communication systems is a sophisticated task.
A typical transceiver design includes the combination of coarse- and fine-tracking-sensors, a data receiver, and a
laser source for sending data. For heavily vibrating environments or for systems that have stringent requirements
in terms of pointing accuracy, a fast steering mirror might be used. This results in a design with many parts.
The Fiberbundle Receiver, consisting of 7 fibers in conjunction with photodiodes, can ease such an implementation
process. It allows the combination of some of the mentioned components, which results in a less
complicated design. Standard COTS components for fiber based WDM systems can be used for challenging
tasks as e.g. wavelength splitting. Furthermore, a cost-effective and very fast tracking system can be implemented.
A technology demonstrator for the application of the Fiberbundle Receiver at a wavelength of 1550 nm
has been developed and will be discussed in this paper.
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A solar illuminated glinting specular object can serve as an in situ sensor probe that is observable from long distances.
Retroreflective objects produce bright glints when illuminated by coaxial illumination sources such as lasers. These
glints are modulated in various ways by illumination source variances, the local probe environment, the intervening
propagation paths and the remote sensing system. The modulating signals can be recovered by using reflectivity
detectors with temporal, spatial, wavelength, directivity and polarization sensitivity. Clustered and moving specular
probes provide additional information through geometry extraction, beam forming and multisensor noise reduction.
Experimental results are shown for omnidirectional specular imaging, atmospheric wake turbulence measurement,
redeye sensing and acoustic sensing.
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Experimental Measurements, Concepts, and Performance II
This paper investigates the approximation of the Bit Error Rate of a coherent optical focal plane array
receiver for PPM signals in the presence of atmospheric turbulence. Analysis of the expressions needed to
obtain the Bit Error Rate (BER) for the real system under study in the laboratory is shown, specifically an
approach using the Saddle-Point approximation of the Marcum-Q function and a procedure is
further discussed to approximate the Marcum-Q function using the cumulative distribution function (cdf) of
the Nakagami-m distribution. It is shown that by approximation of the Marcum-Q function by means of
the cdf of the Nakagami-m distribution, the numerical value of the probability of error can be readily
computed.
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Motivated by rapid advances in solar blind ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes (LEDs), filters and photomultiplier
tubes (PMTs), together with unique UV atmospheric propagation characteristics, a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) UV
communication test-bed has been recently built and utilized for extensive experimental evaluation of performance of
NLOS UV links in outdoor environments. Towards this end, key link components are first characterized and their
limitations are identified. The tradeoffs among communication range, received number of photons, and bit-error-rate are
revealed via field measurement results. Wavelength diversity is achieved by utilizing combinations of sources and
detectors centered at different wavelengths in the solar blind band. It is demonstrated that signals can be reliably
transmitted to their destinations of dozens of meters away through an NLOS channel. Although all reported results in
this paper are based on open field experiments, it is found that reflections from surrounding objects such as trees and
buildings can enhance the received signal strength, up to an order of magnitude increase in the received number of
photons in some cases, thus significantly improving link performance.
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Superconducting nanowire single photon detectors have recently been demonstrated as viable candidates for photon-counting
optical receivers operating at data rates in excess of 100 Mbit/s. In this paper, we discuss techniques for
extending these data rates to rates > 1 Gbit/s. We report on a recent demonstration of a 2-element nanowire detector
array operating at a source data rate of 1.25 Gbit/s. We also describe techniques for emulating larger arrays of detectors
using a single detector. We use these techniques to demonstrate photon-counting receiver operation at data rates from
780-Mbit/s to 2.5 Gbit/s with sensitivities ranging from 1.1 to 7.1 incident photons per bit.
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Silicon Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes (Si GM-APDs) have desirable properties for an optical
photon-counting receiver, including high single-photon detection efficiency, low reset time, and low
timing jitter; however, they do not detect near-IR photons. In this work, we demonstrated a sensitive
photon-counting receiver in the near-IR by combining a wavelength converter consisting of a
periodically-poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide and a commercial Si GM-APD detector. We
measured a receiver sensitivity from 1.4 to 3.5 incident photons/bit from 5.5 Mb/s to 22 Mb/s for a
single detector, and achieved a sensitivity of 4 photons/bit at 78 Mb/s using an emulated array of 25
detectors.
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High data-rate atmospheric free-space optical (FSO) lasercom systems typically suffer from relatively long time duration
link degradations. These are caused by pointing- and tracking-errors or deep signal-fades produced by the index of
refraction fluctuations caused by atmospheric turbulence. Based on measurement results we will present in this paper a
channel characterization model for free-space optical links. Further a forward-error-correction (FEC) coding scheme is
introduced that is able to overcome link outages. The performance of these codes has been proven by measurements.
Code design recommendations and validation test results are discussed in this paper.
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Establishing a link between a ground station and a geosynchronous orbiting satellite can be aided greatly with
the use of a beacon on the satellite. A tracker, or even an adaptive optics system, can use the beacon during
communications activities to correct beam pointing for atmospheric turbulence and mount jitter effects.
However, the pointing lead-ahead required to illuminate the moving object and an aperture mismatch between
the tracking and pointing apertures can limit the effectiveness of the correction as the sensed tilt will not be
the same as the tilt required for optimal transmission to the satellite. In this paper we present an analytical
model that addresses the combined impact of these tracking issues in a ground-to-satellite optical link. The
analysis considers geosynchronous Earth orbit satellites as well as low Earth orbit satellites.
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The mobile free-space optical channel mainly suffers from relatively long link outages, produced by short-term
blockings of the line-of-sight (obstacles, clouds), pointing- and tracking-errors or deep signal-fades caused by index of
refraction turbulence effects. This paper discusses the applicability of commonly used communication protocols like
UDP, TCP, ARQ and the SCPS-TP from the Space Communications Protocol Standards (SCPS) in various scenarios.
The performance of the protocols in the selected scenarios is evaluated using the simulation software OMNeT++. The
simulations are based on channel measurements from the three FSO demonstrations FASOLT (61 km Ground - Ground
link), KIODO (LEO satellite downlink), and ATENAA (land-mobile link) and from ongoing measurements at the
German Aerospace Center (DLR) (short-range Ground - Ground) as part of the MINERVAA project. Based on the
simulation results, recommendations for protocols in free-space optical communication scenarios are given.
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The choice of wavelength is essential for the variety of different communication scenarios in the field of free space
optics (FSO). Possibilities are Satellite and HAP (High Altitude Platform) Downlinks, HAP-HAP links, HAP-Satellite
links and all kinds of links involving aeronautical vehicles. This paper addresses the influence of the wavelength
dependent attenuation of clouds, the atmospheric transmission in the NIR and MIR and a statistical analysis of cloud
coverage data for an estimation of link availability. Regarding the calculation of atmospheric transmission the free
available simulation tools libRadtran and GENLN2 have been used. To identify advantageous wavelengths to increase
link availability, cloud attenuation is determined by Mie scattering calculations of particle size distributions of various
cloud types. Here the MIR wavelength interval between 10 μm and 12 μm has been found to give the lowest attenuation
in clouds. However in most cases clouds will block the optical link. For that matter a statistical analysis of satellite based
data from the European Cloud Climatology (ECC) is done to reveal favorable places with high availability in Europe.
The improvement of link availability when a concept of ground station diversity is applied has also been investigated. An
availability of almost 99 % is reached with four hypothetical stations in southern Europe. Further the difference between
availability values of single years decreases with multiple stations.
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There are a number of options for modulation formats in optical fiber and free-space lasercom systems. There are a
seemingly even greater number of options for receiver architectures. Although essentially all of these possibilities and
combinations have been analyzed in journal publications, conferences, and textbooks, it seems to the author that much of
this information has not been compiled in such a way that the community can easily appreciate relationships between
performance and related costs of these many options. In this brief overview, then, we will compare the power and
bandwidth efficiencies of coded and uncoded systems using some of the most commonly used formats and receivers.
We will also examine some of the more recent results in quantum-optimum receivers in the same context.
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High definition (HD) quality imagery provides clearer and more detailed information for use in advanced video
surveillance systems. The deployment of such surveillance systems where no fixed communications infrastructure exists
presents an ideal application for high data rate directional FSO/RF links and networks. Next generation surveillance
systems using HD imagery will be able to detect and analyze objects in detail and at large distances. Such flexibly
deployable surveillance systems will be very valuable for military and homeland security surveillance. Nevertheless,
designing these types of systems is not an easy task. First, HD images require large amounts of bandwidth: compressed
high definition television (HDTV 1080i) images require bit rates of approximately 20Mb/s, which rise to above 1Gb/s
for uncompressed images at 30 frames/s, and an increase in the number of cameras in one single system can saturate the
available bandwidth. Second, advanced surveillance requires significant computational power for real-time object
detection, tracking, and discrimination. This paper analyzes these issues and proposes a solution with on demand video
compression and real-time object detection algorithms. A system architecture of a HD scalable system with the ability to
track and discriminate objects and events within the system's deployed area will be described. Practical examples of
autonomous event detection in wirelessly transmitted HDTV images will be given.
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The experimental results of an inter-orbit laser communication performed under an atmospheric influence is presented.
The demonstration was planned so that the optical link was supposed to graze the earth's rim because of the satellite
revolution around the earth. The trial was successfully carried out on 5th April, 2006. The measured experimental data
are introduced to show the temporal behavior of the OICETS's optical terminal. The atmospheric influence on the
optical link is calculated with a theoretical model to obtain a probability density of normalized intensity as a predictive
value. The probability density is also estimated from the experimentally measured data. The comparison shows that the
theoretical prediction well describes the experimental results.
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The first bi-directional laser communications demonstration between the optical ground station developed by the
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) located in Koganei, Tokyo and the Optical
Inter-orbit Communication Engineering Test Satellite (OICETS) was successfully conducted in March, May, and
September, 2006. The Kirari Optical communication Demonstration Experiments with the NICT optical ground station
(KODEN) were jointly conducted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and NICT. Data from the uplink
and downlink optical communication links were analyzed. For the downlink, the scintillation index agreed well with the
theoretical results calculated based on the strong fluctuation theory. The aperture averaging effect was the dominant
factor in reducing the variation of the downlink signals. The probability density functions as a function of elevation
angles were measured and compared with the theoretical model, showing good agreement. For the uplink, the
scintillation index disagreed with the calculated results based on the strong fluctuation theory. The multiple beam effect
of the uplink transmission with large beams will have an additional reduction factor, which will help to establish
ground-to-satellite laser communication links in the future. Four laser beams transmitted from the optical ground station
to the OICETS satellite also helped to reduce the optical signal's intensity fluctuation due to atmospheric turbulence.
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The original scanner of tilting orthogonal double prisms is studied for testing the tracking performance in inter-satellite
laser communications. Two prisms respectively rotate around the horizontal axle and the vertical one within the
admissible range to determine the corresponding orientation and position of the passing beam, therefore the high
accuracy deviation angle of passing beam can be performed. The test experiments performed with autocollimator and
interferometer, as well as the theoretical analysis, indicates that the scanner can meet the requirements of the deviation
accuracy superior to 0.5 μrad with the deviation range greater than 500 μrad, which accords to our design requirements.
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Nearly diffraction-limited laser beam in the laser communications is often to be evaluated by the
interferometers. A series of wave fronts sensors are manufactured which are designed as over 500
millimeters apertures and three kinds of thickness of 50, 100 and 200 millimeters according to different
need of shearing amount. They are suitable for measurement of diffraction-limited laser wave front or
the larger aberrations. The plate and the wedge are the basic structures for the sensors which are
shearing interference between the forward surface reflection and the backward. These simple plates
will make the mechanical design and adjustment easier. The wedge of aperture-divided is so designed
that the precision of measured wave front is higher than the full aperture design for that the error comes
from the material and optical manufacture is reduced through compare the up part and the down part
each other. The method is explained in detail in this paper. Some experiment interferograms are
analyzed and the wave heights are deduced.
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Recent successful demonstrations of laser communications have demonstrated the feasibility of some of the key aspects
of this technology. The demonstrations can not success without the full-up ground test and validation. So an integrate
test-bed was build in build to test the technical parameters and to verify the working performance for the optical
pointing, acquisition and tracking (PAT) of various inter-satellite lasercom terminals.
In this paper, we detail the test technical scheme (TTS) and the corresponding experiments. The integrate test-bed is a
high quality optical system that will measure the key characteristics of lasercom terminals, such as point error, tracking
error, acquisition possibility etc.. The test-bed can operate over the relative wavelength range.
Through quantitative tests, the terminal could be optimized base on the test results.
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We study the behaviors of scintillation of the electromagnetic beam Gaussian Schell-model (GSM) beam
propagating in atmospheric turbulence based on the cross-spectral density matrix. It is shown analytically that the
scintillation index the beam is influenced by correlation properties of source and the effect of turbulence
simultaneously. The competition between the two types of parameters results in a maximum value of scintillation
of the GSM beam propagating in turbulence.
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In the inter-satellite laser communication, the laser wavefront reaches the diffraction limit. For the test of the
diffraction-limited wavefront, we have developed a Jamin double-shearing interferometer of which the detectable
wave-front height is in the order of 0.1 wavelengths. Based on this interferometer, a polarization phase-shifting
double-shearing interferometer is proposed to improve the performance. The existing Jamin double-shearing
interferometer is consists of two Jamin plates to form lateral shearing and four wedge plates to divide the aperture. The
polarization phase shifter is composed of three polarizers, a quarter-wave plate and an analyzer. The first polarizer is
placed in front of the first Jamin plate. The second and third polarizers are placed behind the wedge plates and their
transmission axes are parallel and perpendicular to the incident plane of the Jamin plates, respectively. The fast axis of
the quarter-wave plate has an angle of 45 degrees to the transmission axis of the second and third polarizers. By rotating
the analyzer, the phase-shift interferogram is obtained. In the interferometer, the polarization phase shifter is simple to be
inserted and the phase shifting is easy to realize. The interferometer is kept as an equal optical path system and still suits
wavefront testing of the low coherent light. In experiments, phase-shifting interferograms are obtained and the usefulness
of the interferometer is verified.
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Due to the improved receiver sensitivity and wavelength selectivity, coherent detection became an attractive alternative
to direct detection in inter-satellite laser communications. A novel method to coherent detection of position errors
information is proposed. Coherent communication system generally consists of receive telescope, local oscillator, optical
hybrid, photoelectric detector and optical phase lock loop (OPLL). Based on the system composing, this method adds
CCD and computer as position error detector. CCD captures interference pattern while detection of transmission data
from the transmitter laser. After processed and analyzed by computer, target position information is obtained from
characteristic parameter of the interference pattern. The position errors as the control signal of PAT subsystem drive the
receiver telescope to keep tracking to the target. Theoretical deviation and analysis is presented. The application extends
to coherent laser rang finder, in which object distance and position information can be obtained simultaneously.
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The complex model of terrestrial FSO link is based on two models: the power-budget model of a given link (steady
model) and the installation site model (statistical model). The steady model is represented by the power balance
equation and the power level diagram. The statistical model consists in the knowledge of cumulative exceedance
probability of the random atmospheric attenuation coefficient. The parameters of the statistical model depend only on
the atmospheric phenomena on installation site. Data from more than 200 sites in Italy, France and Germany are
presented.
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We present a compact Extended Cavity Laser (ECL) system based on a high-power laser diode optimized for maximum
efficiency of the Rb optical pumping process. The system represents the crucial part of the HpG (hyperpolarized gasses)
production process. We concentrated on the ECL system optimization - linewidth matching and frequency stabilization - for the optical pumping process. We show that the intensity of optical feedback in the ECL laser influences linewidth and
output power and it is possible to find an optimum value for the highest power spectral density at the absorption line of
desire. The emission linewidth was reduced approximately 10 times with only half of the total optical power loss. The
ECL system is controlled by electronic servo-loop for laser frequency stabilization.
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Atmospheric noise signals are fundamental limitation of free-space optical communications, as the decrease in signal-to-noise ratio reduces the range and/or bandwidth of the link. In this paper we consider the limitations that this imposes, and investigate the use of discrete wavelet transformation (DWT) to overcome them. Simulations are performed to validate the use of the DWT in the demodulation of the analog data in the presence of noise. Results of the experiments are presented.
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