{"id":5613,"date":"2020-02-23T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cailabs.com\/technical-publications-and-conferences\/alternative-passive-fiber-coupling-system-based-on-multi-plane-light-conversion-for-satellite-to-ground-communications\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T09:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T08:03:42","slug":"alternative-passive-fiber-coupling-system-based-on-multi-plane-light-conversion-for-satellite-to-ground-communications","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.cailabs.com\/fr\/publications-techniques-conferences\/aerospatial-et-defense\/alternative-passive-fiber-coupling-system-based-on-multi-plane-light-conversion-for-satellite-to-ground-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative passive fiber coupling system based on multi-plane light conversion for satellite-to-ground communications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Authors: Ramon Mata Calvo,<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0David Allioux,<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0Andrew Reeves,<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0Antonin Billaud,<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0Juraj Poliak,<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0Olivier Pinel,<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0Helawae Friew Kelemu,<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0Guillaume Labroille,<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0Mathias Richerzhagen<sup>3<\/sup><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Deutsches Zentrum f\u00fcr Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Germany)<br><sup>2<\/sup>Cailabs (France)<br><sup>3<\/sup>Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Ctr. (Germany)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-noir-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8eeeb024cbbdc1e5b6dbf20c2d788684\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global coverage of internet access is essential for digitalization in society, becoming a disruptive technology in industry, education or political participation for example. Satellite communications is a complementary approach to the terrestrial fiber network, which can provide world-wide coverage with few satellites in geostationary orbit or with low-earth-orbit constellations. Optical wavelengths offer multiple THz of available spectrum that can be used to connect satellites to the ground network with high-throughput links, solving the radiofrequency bandwidth bottleneck, without regulations. Cloud covereage and atmospheric turbulence are the main challenge in guaranteeing the same availability as in terrestrial fiber-based systems. While the former can be addressed by site diversity, for the latter, other mitigation strategies are required. Adaptive optics is a common approach to correct for atmospheric phase distortions and ensure stable fiber coupling. However, this approach requires a relatively complex active setup and therefore a collaboration between DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation and Cailabs has been formed to investigate alternative passive solutions for low-complexity ground stations. Coupling into multimode fibers does not require adaptive optics due to the large fiber core, however the coupled signal is distributed into multiple fiber-modes and is therefore incompatible with standard telecommunications components. Cailabs Multi-Plane Light Conversion (MPLC) technology overcomes this issue, selectively demultiplexing the fibermodes into single-mode fibers. Here, DLR\u2019s adaptive optics system and the MPLC technology in a turbulence-relevant environment for GEO communications are compared, investigating the advantages of the MPLC approach for compensating strong turbulence. This paper presents an overview of the measurement setup and analyzes the single-mode fibers outputs of the spatial demultiplexer and the measured phase-distortions from a wavefront sensor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spiedigitallibrary.org\/conference-proceedings-of-spie\/11272\/2546076\/Alternative-passive-fiber-coupling-system-based-on-multi-plane-light\/10.1117\/12.2546076.short?SSO=1#_=_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More information<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPIE Photonics West LASE 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"parent":0,"template":"","categorie-publication":[99],"class_list":["post-5613","publication","type-publication","status-publish","hentry","categorie-publication-aerospatial-et-defense"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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