Next generation satellite-to-ground laser link systems, either for telemetry or satcom will request very high data rate. This goal could be achieved with a manageable cost if the benefits from the fibered technologies are reaped. For downlink the wave therefore needs to be coupled into a single mode fiber. Due to atmospheric turbulence its spatial coherence is compromised. This causes strong coupling losses that result into deep fadings. To cope with this, adaptive optics (AO) is envisaged. Thanks to a real time compensation of atmospheric induced optical path differences, it might enable to reach average coupling efficiencies as high as 0,5 (3 dB average losses). AO is now a mature technology, mostly brought to market by astronomy or biomedical applications. Usual correction bandwidth and available flux to perform the wavefront measurement are rather small (typically 50 Hz bandwidth and tenth of photons per subaperture and per frame). The specificity of AO for LEO satellite to ground optical links resides into higher requested bandwidth, optimal operation for a wide variety of atmospheric conditions (daytime and nighttime) with potentially low elevations that might severely affect wavefront sensing due to scintillation. In addition to this the performance criterion of the correction is different from usual imaging applications, with appropriate constraints on coupling statistics and temporal characteristics. To address these specificities, AO dimensioning approach needs to be adapted and consolidated by in situ measurements. We report here the first AO results on a LEO microsatellite as far as we know. The AO bench located at Coudé focus of the MéO telescope, designed for imaging applications, is used to correct for optical aberrations on a 976 nm laser beam provided by SOTA terminal. AO performances are investigated and confronted to state of the art performance evaluations for satellite to ground laser links.


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    Title :

    Adaptive optics results with SOTA


    Contributors:
    Petit, C. (author) / Vedrenne, N. (author) / Michau, V. (author) / Artaud, G. (author) / Issler, J.-L. (author) / Samain, E. (author) / Toyoshima, M. (author) / Akioka, M. (author) / Kolev, D. (author) / Munemasa, Y. (author)


    Publication date :

    2015-10-01


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    3427400 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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