Performance of satellite-to-ground communications link between ARTEMIS and the Optical Ground Station

Alonso, Angel; Reyes, Marcos; Sodnik, Zoran
Referencia bibliográfica

Optics in Atmospheric Propagation and Adaptive Systems VII. Edited by Gonglewski, John D.; Stein, Karin. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5572, pp. 372-383 (2004).

Fecha de publicación:
11
2004
Número de autores
3
Número de autores del IAC
2
Número de citas
17
Número de citas referidas
11
Descripción
The European Space Agency has built an optical ground station sited at the Observatorio del Teide operated by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. This station, equipped with a 1m telescope, has a multipurpose configuration for in-orbit commissioning and checkout of laser communication payloads. Since November 2001, the bidirectional link with satellite ARTEMIS has been established in more than 80 successful sessions. In this paper, we analyze the influence of turbulence parameters on the performance of communications in the bidirectional ground to space laser communication experiments. The link performance observed in the satellite-to-ground channel showed average bit error rates of 1E-6 over long durations (20 minutes), however in some occasions BER's of at least 10-9 -10-10 over durations of 5 to 30 minutes were observed. The behavior of the Bit Error Rate measurements performed in different turbulence conditions is characterized.