Overview of international experiment campaign with small optical transponder (SOTA)

Author

D.R. Kolev;H. Takenaka;Y. Munemasa;M. Akioka;N. Iwakiri;Y. Koyama;H. Kunimori;M. Toyoshima;G. Artaud;J.-L. Issler;J.-P. Aguttes;D. Gratton;A. Koujelev;Cl. Heese;Z. Sodnik;R. Daddato;I. Zayer;E. Samain;D.-H. Phung;N. Maurice;N. Vedrenne

Author_Institution

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Koganei, Japan

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

NICT initiated R&D effort of Small Optical TrAnsponder (SOTA) for LEO satellites to demonstrate the laser communication via satellite-to-ground atmospheric path links. SOTA is the payload on a 50-kg class microsatellite called Space Optical Communication Research Advanced Technology Satellite (SOCRATES), launched on 24th of May, 2014. Several international partners were interested in joint collaboration and NICT has initiated the international experiment campaign using SOTA with other agencies to perform laser communication experiments between SOTA and different international Optical Ground Stations (OGSs). In this paper, we describe the interface and link establishment protocol that had to be considered in the different OGS and the preliminary results in the international experiment campaign using SOTA.

Keywords

"Optical fiber communication","Integrated optics","Optical sensors","Satellites","Optical transmitters","Satellite broadcasting","High-speed optical techniques"

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS), 2015 IEEE International Conference on

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSOS.2015.7425060

Filename

7425060