Impact of transmitter wavefront errors and pointing jitter on intersatellite free space optical communications

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Abstract

Intersatellite optical communication links will be crucial for the development of future global optical and quantum communication networks. Under the harsh space environment satellite optical terminals will suffer pointing jitter and wavefront errors. In this paper, the impact of the combination of these errors on the transmitter side is modeled. Combining the far-field diffraction patterns obtained through computational Fourier optics and the statistics of the pointing jitter, the received power statistics are derived numerically for different scenarios. The computational model is first used to evaluate the optimum nominal parameters of the transmitted beam. Then, several optical aberrations are added to the transmitted beam and their impact on the communication performance is evaluated through the average bit error rate.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSPIE Optical System Design 2024
Subtitle of host publicationComputational Optics
Editors Daniel G. Smith, Andreas Erdmann
PublisherSPIE
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781510673649
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024
EventSPIE Optical Systems Design 2024 - Strasbourg, France
Duration: 7 Apr 202412 Apr 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume13023
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceSPIE Optical Systems Design 2024
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityStrasbourg
Period7/04/2412/04/24

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