Free-space Optical Interconnect for Inter-Satellite Communications

用于卫星间通信的自由空间光互连

• 批准号: 544530-2019
• 负责人: Ménard, Michaël
• 金额: $ 0.91万
• 依托单位: Université du Québec à Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Plus Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=674999
• 关键词: Free; space; Optical; Interconnect; Inter

ubiquitous. As the next generation of satellites is being deployed there is a need for efficient interconnectionsbetween them, especially for those forming low earth orbiting constellations for the coming Internet-of-Spaceapplications. The limited radio frequency spectrum available is not sufficient to implement thesecommunication links, and thus, free-space optical interconnects (FSOIs) are expected to become the technologyof choice to interconnect satellites. Reflex Photonics, a company from Kirkland, Quebec, has been providingoptical interconnect solutions for connections inside satellites for the past 3 years and now wants to explorehow it can leverage its expertise to build FSOI transmitters for space applications. To do this, they want tocontinue their collaboration with Prof. Ménard of UQAM and built on the knowledge gained about siliconphotonic modulators during a previous Engage project to develop a FSOI transmitter demonstrator takingadvantage of this technology and to investigate through simulations how the potential for integration of siliconphotonics could be used to miniaturise the transmitter in order to make it suitable for space applications.

无处不在魁北克的柯克兰（Kirkland）在过去的3年中一直为卫星内部的连接提供了互连的解决方案，现在可以探索它可以利用fsoi发射器来建造uqam的梅纳德（Ménard），并建立在sloticonphotonic of the strator of strator of strator of strator ofstrator ofstrator partator thator ofstrator offarataDectarventation上。技术和TheStigh模拟硅晶型学的增强性如何使发射器具有分辨率，以使其适合空间应用。