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General Introduction and Background on Intersatellite Optical Wireless Communication SystemsOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Optical communications systems have evolved from lengthy fibers to powerful wireless system. This has hence resulted in the use of optical wireless communication system in space communications. As the number of satellites orbiting Earth increase year by year, a network between the satellites provides a method for them to communicate with each other. This is important for satellites to send information to one another and also to relay the information from one satellite to another satellite and then to the ground stations. In this thesis, the inter-satellite communication link will be studied and optical wireless communication will be proposed for the link. The inter-satellite optical wireless communication (IsOWC) system was designed and simulated for performance characterization. The inter-satellite link will be modeled and simulated using an optical system simulator named OptiSystem by Optiwave. The conclusions from this thesis show that by using laser satellite communication system, the satellites can be connected with high data rates .
During the signal passes through optical wireless channel, it exposed to attenuation due to large distances and atmospheric conditions. There are many methods and techniques which are used to overcome the attenuation such as multiplexing techniques, modulation techniques, using multiple transceiver in the system and types of filters.
Finally, this thesis fully discusses the free space optic system technology for inter-satellite communication link for future development of large data transfer between satellites with high quality of service (QoS) by using multi-transceivers, multiplexing techniques and changing type of filter.