The laser beacon power required by a communication terminal for acquisition and tracking in deep space optical link scenarios can be reduced by a factor of 10 to 100 by replacing an integrating array, such as a CCD, with an array of single photon detectors. An additional benefit of the single photon detector array is that each pixel can have MHz bandwidths, allowing simultaneous recovery of photon time-of-arrival information that can be used for uplink data recovery or range measurements.
Deep space acquisition and tracking with single photon detector arrays
2011-05-01
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