{"title":"Deep space acquisition and tracking with single photon detector arrays","authors":"W. Farr, S. Sburlan, A. Sahasrabudhe, K. Birnbaum","doi":"10.1109/ICSOS.2011.5783654","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The laser beacon power required by a communication terminal for acquisition and tracking in deep space optical link scenarios can be reduced by a factor of 10 to 100 by replacing an integrating array, such as a CCD, with an array of single photon detectors. An additional benefit of the single photon detector array is that each pixel can have MHz bandwidths, allowing simultaneous recovery of photon time-of-arrival information that can be used for uplink data recovery or range measurements.","PeriodicalId":107082,"journal":{"name":"2011 International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2011-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"16","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2011 International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSOS.2011.5783654","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The laser beacon power required by a communication terminal for acquisition and tracking in deep space optical link scenarios can be reduced by a factor of 10 to 100 by replacing an integrating array, such as a CCD, with an array of single photon detectors. An additional benefit of the single photon detector array is that each pixel can have MHz bandwidths, allowing simultaneous recovery of photon time-of-arrival information that can be used for uplink data recovery or range measurements.