The JPL Optical Communications Telescope Laboratory (OCTL) is a 200 sq-m located at 2.2.km altitude in Wrightwood California and houses a state-of-the-art 1-m telescope. The OCTL team is involved in the development of operational strategies for ground-to-space laser beam propagation for future NASA optical communications missions. Strategies include safe beam propagation through navigable air space, line of sight optical attenuation monitoring, adaptive optics, and multi-beam scintillation mitigation. This paper presents the results of recent operations at the OCTL facility including telescope characterization data and laser beam propagation experiments to Earth-orbiting retro-reflecting satellites; experiments that validate the telescope's tracking and blind-pointing performance and safe laser beam transmission procedures for propagating through navigable airspace.


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    Title :

    Operations at the JPL OCTL Telescope


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    International Space Conference of Pacific-basic Societies (ISCOPS) ; 2007 ; Beijing, China


    Publication date :

    2007-05-16


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English