Emulating and characterizing strong turbulence conditions for space-to-ground optical links: the PICOLO bench
Pablo Robles,
Cyril Petit,
Marie-Thérèse Velluet
et al.
Abstract:.We present a method to develop a turbulence emulation bench for low-Earth-orbit satellite-to-ground optical communication links under strong turbulence. We provide guidelines to characterize the spatio–temporal dynamics of phase disturbances and scintillation produced by the emulator on a laser beam. We implemented such an emulator for a link at 10 deg elevation and discuss here its design method and characterization. The characterization results are compared to numerical simulations, and this characterizatio… Show more
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