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Peter M Goorjian

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NASA NTRS2021

Fine Pointing of Laser Beams by Using Laser Arrays for Applications to CubeSats

A method of fine pointing of laser beams by using laser arrays has been developed. The telescope system combines a lens system and a VCSEL/Photodetector Array. It does not use moving parts. In computer simulations, it is applied to CubeSats that use body pointing. Body pointing was used by the Aerospace Corporation for CubeSats in LEO in NASA’s Optical Communications and Sensors Demonstration (OCSD) program. Computer simulations of this fine pointing capability have been applied previously to CubeSats in the OCSD program. In this paper, computer simulations of laser pointing using this telescope design are applied to CubeSats in LLO, at 100 km. These CubeSats could form part of the LunaNet, the lunar communications and navigation network, part of the NASA ARTEMIS Program. With more accurate pointing, a laser beam with smaller divergence can be used. For the case of the AeroCube-7B vehicle that was used in the OCSD program, computer simulations will show, for example, that the divergence of the output beam can be reduced from approximately 0.06° FWHM to 0.014°. For the proposed electro-optical system, reaction times to pointing changes and vibrations are on a nanosecond time scale, much faster than those for fine pointing systems that use moving parts such as fast steering mirrors, including MEMS, or that use quad-cell photodetectors to improve the body pointing of the CubeSat. Other possible applications are to Optical Multiple Access (OMA)for simultaneously communicating with ground stations at different locations and to Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM)for increasing data rate transmission.

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NASA NTRS2005

Ultrafast Laser Beam Switching and Pulse Train Generation by Using Coupled Vertical-Cavity, Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELS)

Ultrafast directional beam switching is achieved using coupled VCSELs. This approach is demonstrated to achieve beam switching frequencies of 40 GHz and more and switching directions of about eight degrees. This switching scheme is likely to be useful for ultrafast optical networks at frequencies much higher than achievable with other approaches.

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NASA NTRSDate not supplied

Fine pointing of Laser Beams by using Laser Arrays for Applications to CubeSats

A method of fine pointing of laser beams by using laser arrays has been developed. The telescope system combines a lens system and a VCSEL/Photodetector Array. It does not use moving parts. In computer simulations, it is applied to CubeSats that use body pointing. Body pointing was used by the Aerospace Corporation for CubeSats in LEO in NASA’s Optical Communications and Sensors Demonstration (OCSD) program. Computer simulations of this fine pointing capability have been applied previously to CubeSats in the OCSD program. In this paper, computer simulations of laser pointing using this telescope design are applied to CubeSats in LLO, at 100 km. These CubeSats could form part of the LunaNet, the lunar communications and navigation network, part of the NASA ARTEMIS Program. With more accurate pointing, a laser beam with smaller divergence can be used. For the case of the AeroCube-7B vehicle that was used in the OCSD program, computer simulations will show, for example, that the divergence of the output beam can be reduced from approximately 0.06° FWHM to 0.014°. For the proposed electro-optical system, reaction times to pointing changes and vibrations are on a nanosecond time scale, much faster than those for fine pointing systems that use moving parts such as fast steering mirrors, including MEMS, or that use quad-cell photodetectors to improve the body pointing of the CubeSat. Other possible applications are to Optical Multiple Access (OMA)for simultaneously communicating with ground stations at different locations and to Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM)for increasing data rate transmission.

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