Presentation 2009-11-13
Signal Amplification and Photorefractive Phase Conjugation for Space Laser Communications
Christian A. Schafer,
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Abstract(in English) Photorefractive phase conjugation is attractive for applying in future laser communications terminals due to its incorporated tracking and wave front distortion compensation capabilities. But due to the comparatively high required optical power, it is generally unpractical to employ components based on the photorefractive effect into a space laser communications system. This paper follows the approach to overcome this problem by using a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). Since the amplified spontaneous emission noise arising in the amplification process has an erasing effect on the diffraction gratings in the photorefractive medium, it also affects the creation of phase conjugation. Therefore, the performance of photorefractive phase conjugation and two-wave-mixing depending on the noise power is examined and the minimum SOA-input power to successfully perform photorefractive experiments is determined experimentally by using a Rh:BaTiO_3 photorefractive crystal.
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Keyword(in English) Amplification / Phase Conjugation / Near-Infrared / Optical Noise
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Conference Date 2009/11/6(1days)
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Title (in English) Signal Amplification and Photorefractive Phase Conjugation for Space Laser Communications
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Keyword(1) Amplification
Keyword(2) Phase Conjugation
Keyword(3) Near-Infrared
Keyword(4) Optical Noise
1st Author's Name Christian A. Schafer
1st Author's Affiliation Space Communications Group, New Generation Wireless Communications Research Center National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)()
Date 2009-11-13
Paper # OME2009-60,OPE2009-155
Volume (vol) vol.109
Number (no) 283
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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