タイトル | Airborne Optical Communications Demonstrator Design And Preflight Test Results |
著者(英) | Farr, W. H.; Hernnzati, H.; Ovtiz, G.; Neal, J.; Biswas, Abhijit; Zhu, D.; Wright, M.; Page, N. |
著者所属(英) | Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. |
発行日 | 2005-01-22 |
言語 | eng |
内容記述 | A second generation optical communications demonstrator (OCD-2) intended for airborne applications like air-to-ground and air-to-air optical links is under development at JPL. This development provides the capability for unidirectional high data rate (2.5-Gbps) transmission at 1550-nm, with the ability to receive an 810-nm beacon to aid acquisition pointing and tracking. The transmitted beam width is nominally 200-(micro)rad. A 3x3 degree coarse field-of-view (FOV) acquisition sensor with a much smaller ~3-mrad FOV tracking sensor is incorporated. The OCD-2 optical head will be integrated to a high performance gimbal turret assembly capable of providing pointing stability of 5- microradians from an airborne platform. Other parts of OCD-2 include a cable harness, connecting the optical head in the gimbal turret assembly to a rugged electronics box. The electronics box will house: command and control processors, laser transmitter, data-generation-electronics, power conversion/distribution hardware and state-of-health monitors. The entire assembly will be integrated and laboratory tested prior to a planned flight demonstrations. |
NASA分類 | Aircraft Communications and Navigation |
権利 | Copyright |
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