Polymeric waveguide hologram based 4-channel coarse WDM for satellite optical communications

Author

Gu, Lanlan ; Zhao, Feng ; Shi, Zhong ; Liu, Jian ; Chen, Ray T.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2004

fDate

28-30 June 2004

Abstract

In this paper, a coarse photopolymer grating-based WDM device is proposed and developed to work for a simple point-to-point data transfer between two satellites. The four-channel CWDM device reported herein provides two data streams at 0.83 μm and 1.55 μm, an inter-satellite tracking channel at 1.06 μm, and an intra-satellite communication channel at 1.34 μm. This device works properly in the current optical satellite medium bit rate system based on 0.8 μm technology and its performance can also be maintained in the future high bit rate system using 1.5 μm technology.

Keywords

holographic gratings; holography; optical polymers; optical waveguides; satellite links; satellite tracking; telecommunication channels; wavelength division multiplexing; 0.8 micron; 0.83 micron; 1.06 micron; 1.34 micron; 1.5 micron; 1.55 micron; bit rate system; coarse WDM; coarse photopolymer grating; inter-satellite tracking channel; point-to-point data transfer; polymeric waveguide hologram; satellite optical communication; Artificial satellites; Bit rate; Holographic optical components; Holography; Optical coupling; Optical films; Optical polymers; Optical waveguides; Space technology; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biophotonics/Optical Interconnects and VLSI Photonics/WBM Microcavities, 2004 Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8306-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2004.1338711

Filename

1338711