Laser based bi-directional Gbit ground links with the Tesat transportable adaptive optical ground station
Heine F, Saucke K, Troendle D, Motzigemba M, Bischl H, Elser D, Marquardt C, Henniger H, Meyer R, Richter I, Sodnik Z (2017)
Publication Type: Conference contribution
Publication year: 2017
Journal
Publisher: SPIE
Book Volume: 10096
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Event location: San Francisco, CA, USA
ISBN: 9781510606333
DOI: 10.1117/12.2252826
Abstract
Optical ground stations can be an alternative to radio frequency based transmit (forward) and receive (return) systems for data relay services and other applications including direct to earth optical communications from low earth orbit spacecrafts, deep space receivers, space based quantum key distribution systems and Tbps capacity feeder links to geostationary spacecrafts. The Tesat Transportable Adaptive Optical Ground Station is operational since September 2015 at the European Space Agency site in Tenerife, Spain. This paper reports about the results of the 2016 experimental campaigns including the characterization of the optical channel from Tenerife for an optimized coding scheme, the performance of the T-AOGS under different atmospheric conditions and the first successful measurements of the suitability of the Alphasat LCT optical downlink performance for future continuous variable quantum key distribution systems.
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Involved external institutions
Tesat-Spacecom GmbH & Co. KG
Germany (DE)
Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts (MPL) / Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Germany (DE)
European Space Agency (ESA)
France (FR)
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) / German Aerospace Center
Germany (DE)
Germany (DE)
Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts (MPL) / Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
Germany (DE)
European Space Agency (ESA)
France (FR)
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR) / German Aerospace Center
Germany (DE)
How to cite
APA:
Heine, F., Saucke, K., Troendle, D., Motzigemba, M., Bischl, H., Elser, D.,... Sodnik, Z. (2017). Laser based bi-directional Gbit ground links with the Tesat transportable adaptive optical ground station. In Don M. Boroson, Hamid Hemmati (Eds.), Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. San Francisco, CA, USA: SPIE.
MLA:
Heine, Frank, et al. "Laser based bi-directional Gbit ground links with the Tesat transportable adaptive optical ground station." Proceedings of the Free-Space Laser Communication and Atmospheric Propagation XXIX, San Francisco, CA, USA Ed. Don M. Boroson, Hamid Hemmati, SPIE, 2017.
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