- Research Article
- Open access
- Published:
Application of Single-Mode Fiber-Coupled Receivers in Optical Satellite to High-Altitude Platform Communications
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking volume 2008, Article number: 864031 (2008)
Abstract
In a free-space optical communication system employing fiber-optic components, the phasefront distortions induced by atmospheric turbulence limit the efficiency with which the laser beam is coupled into a single-mode fiber. We analyze different link scenarios including a geostationary (GEO) satellite, a high-altitude platform (HAP), and an optical ground station (OGS). Single-mode coupled optically preamplified receivers allow for efficient suppression of background noise and highly sensitive detection. While GEO-to-OGS communication suffers from atmospheric turbulence, we demonstrate that GEO-to-HAP communication allows for close to diffraction-limited performance when applying tip-tilt correction.
Publisher note
To access the full article, please see PDF
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Rights and permissions
Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
About this article
Cite this article
Fidler, F., Wallner, O. Application of Single-Mode Fiber-Coupled Receivers in Optical Satellite to High-Altitude Platform Communications. J Wireless Com Network 2008, 864031 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/864031
Received:
Accepted:
Published:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/864031