Abstract
With the development of the space exploration and satellite communications, the data transmission at broadband and long distance are in increasing demand. To enhance the signal transmission capability from the satellite to the earth over deep space, multiple radars from distributed ground stations at cooperative mode might be a promising solution. Broadband beamforming with high efficiency over long distance fiber optic transmission links is investigated in the paper. To achieve phase stable transmission for broadband signal, fast active optical compensation is adopted by phase locking each fiber optic link with a separate wavelength to discriminate the time jitter induced phase variation. By matching the time delays between the different channels, the signal-noise ratio (SNR) of the beamformed broadband signal is improved significantly. In the experiment, a root mean square (RMS) of time delay variations of 0.86 ps and Allan deviation of $1.74\times 10 ^{-13}$ for the carrier transmission in the phase locked fiber link over 120 km is achieved, and broadband fiber optical beamforming with data rate over 2 Gbit/s is successfully demonstrated.
Highlights
The evolution of satellite systems and promising space missions such as gravitational wave and black hole detection has shown a trend towards satellite communications with broader bandwidth [1]–[3]
A root mean square (RMS) of time delay variations of 0.86 ps and Allan deviation (ADEV) of 1.74×10-13 show the high stability of long distance transmission link with the applied fast active optical compensation, and broadband fiber optical beamforming over 120 km with data rate over 2 Gbit/s is successfully demonstrated
The transmission broadband signals are generated by an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) to simulate the broadband vector signal received from the antennas, and the modulated signal power of each channel is kept at the same level
Summary
The evolution of satellite systems and promising space missions such as gravitational wave and black hole detection has shown a trend towards satellite communications with broader bandwidth [1]–[3]. To achieve the phase stability of the broadband signal, the time jitter of long distance fiber is discriminated through phase locking of transmission link with a separate wavelength, and well corrected through a high-speed optical tunable delay line (OTDL).
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