Laser beam acquisition and tracking system for ETS-VI laser communication equipment

Kouichi Komatsu; Seiji Kanda; Keiichi Hirako; Toshiro Ohashi; Motokazu Shikatani; Yoshinori Arimoto; Tadashi Aruga

doi:10.1117/12.18177

1 July 1990 Laser beam acquisition and tracking system for ETS-VI laser communication equipment

Kouichi Komatsu, Seiji Kanda, Keiichi Hirako, Toshiro Ohashi, Motokazu Shikatani, Yoshinori Arimoto, Tadashi Aruga

Proceedings Volume 1218, Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies II; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18177
Event: OE/LASE '90, 1990, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

The configuration of the acquisition and tracking system of the laser communication system aboard the Japanese Engineering Test Satellite VI (ETS-VI) is described, and the control loop design of the coarse and fine loops are examined. Simulations performed to evaluate the dynamic error for each loop, which showed that the dynamic error satisfies the error budget, are described. The tracking accuracy of each loop was measured with a breadboard model and the resulting data were found to meet the error budget.

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Kouichi Komatsu, Seiji Kanda, Keiichi Hirako, Toshiro Ohashi, Motokazu Shikatani, Yoshinori Arimoto, and Tadashi Aruga "Laser beam acquisition and tracking system for ETS-VI laser communication equipment", Proc. SPIE 1218, Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies II, (1 July 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18177

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