タイトル | Operations at the JPL OCTL Telescope |
著者(英) | Biswas, Abhijit; Roberts, William T.; Kovalik, Joseph M.; Wilson, Keith E. |
著者所属(英) | Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. |
発行日 | 2007-05-16 |
言語 | eng |
内容記述 | The JPL Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) is a 200 sq-m located at 2.2.km altitude in Wrightwood California and houses a state-of-the-art 1-m telescope. The OCTL team is involved in the development of operational strategies for ground-to-space laser beam propagation for future NASA optical communications missions. Strategies include safe beam propagation through navigable air space, line of sight optical attenuation monitoring, adaptive optics, and multi-beam scintillation mitigation. This paper presents the results of recent operations at the OCTL facility including telescope characterization data and laser beam propagation experiments to Earth-orbiting retro-reflecting satellites; experiments that validate the telescope's tracking and blind-pointing performance and safe laser beam transmission procedures for propagating through navigable airspace. |
NASA分類 | Optics |
権利 | Copyright |
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