Terabit-throughput GEO satellite optical feeder link testbed

Author

Poliak, Juraj ; Giggenbach, Dirk ; Moll, Florian ; Rein, Fabian ; Fuchs, Christian ; Calvo, Ramon Mata

Author_Institution

Inst. of Commun. & Navig., German Aerosp. Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

fYear

2015

fDate

13-15 July 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The paper presents an experimental testbed, which will be used for the demonstration of more than 1 Tbps free-space optical (FSO) transmission in a scenario similar to that of GEO uplink. The chosen terrestrial scenario corresponds to worst-case conditions of a GEO uplink scenario according to the atmospheric channel characteristics and the geometry of the scenario. The testbed consists of a DWDM-based FSO link over 26km distance with less than 2° elevation. The communications system consists of several DWDM transmitters, which are multiplexed, amplified and transmitted in a single FSO channel. The transmitter as well as the receiver will be pointed and tracked by a high-precision fine-pointing mechanism. The state of the atmospheric transmission media will be monitored in realtime, allowing us to deepen our understanding of the optical satellite uplink transmission.

Keywords

satellite communication; wavelength division multiplexing; DWDM transmitters; FSO channel; GEO satellite optical feeder link testbed; GEO uplink; free-space optical transmission; terabit-throughput; Adaptive optics; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Satellites; Uplink; DWDM; free-space optics; high-throughput communications; optical GEO feeder link; optical satellite communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications (ConTEL), 2015 13th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ConTEL.2015.7231196

Filename

7231196