Free-space optical communications offers expanded data return capacity, from probes distributed throughout the solar system and beyond. Space-borne and Earth-based optical transceivers used for communicating optically, will periodically encounter near-Sun pointing. This will result in an increase in the scattered background-light flux, often contributing to degraded link performance. The varying duration of near-Sun pointing link operations relative to the location of space-probes, is discussed in this paper. The impact of near-Sun pointing on link performance for a direct detection photon-counting communications system is analyzed for both ground- and space-based Earth receivers. Finally, the impact of near-Sun pointing on space-borne optical transceivers is discussed.


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    Title :

    Near-Sun free-space optical communications from space


    Contributors:
    Biswas, A. (author) / Khatri, F. (author) / Boroson, D. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2006-01-01


    Size :

    904111 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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