The paper reports on recent progress in electro-optical and photonics developments at the Canadian Space Agency / Space Technologies / Optical Instrumentation Group. Technology R&D projects in active sensing, lasers and Optical Inter-Satellite Links (OISL) are underway both in-house and in contracting out to Canadian industry. In-house projects are concerned with: - Research and development of a novel all-optical tracking technique for OISL using non-linear optical concepts; these include development of a high-speed communication interface and search for efficient non-linear / optical / laser / light-weight materials to work in the space environment. - Development of space vision systems - an eye-safe laser scanner for 3D-tracking and imaging, and a stereo vision system for object recognition and pose tracking linked to a robotic test-bed (in cooperation with CSA Spacecraft Engineering / Robotics Group); CSA has supported the development of a laser vision system that was demonstrated on a recent Shuttle flight.


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    Title :

    Technology development in active optical instrumentation at Canadian Space Agency, Space Technologies


    Contributors:
    Laurin, D. (author)

    Conference:

    Opto-Canada: SPIE Regional Meeting on Optoelectronics, Photonics, and Imaging ; 2002 ; Ottawa,Ontario,Canada


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 10313


    Publication date :

    2002-05-09




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English