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Vilnrotter, Victor |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2014-02-04T18:01:54Z |
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dc.date.available |
2014-02-04T18:01:54Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2013-03-11 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 2 - 9, 2013 |
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dc.identifier.clearanceno |
13-0099 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2014/44275 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Recent interest in hybrid RF/Optical communications has led to the development and installation of a “polished-panel” optical receiver evaluation assembly on the 34-meter research antenna at Deep-Space Station 13 (DSS-13) at NASA’s Goldstone Communications Complex1. The test setup consists of a custom aluminum panel polished to optical smoothness, and a large-sensor CCD camera designed to image the point-spread function (PSF) generated by the polished aluminum panel. Extensive data has been obtained via realtime tracking and imaging of planets and stars at DSS-13. Both “on-source” and “off-source” data were recorded at various elevations, enabling the development of realistic simulations and analytic models to help determine the performance of future deep-space communications systems operating with onoff keying (OOK) or pulse-position-modulated (PPM) signaling formats with photon-counting detection, and compared with the ultimate quantum bound on detection performance for these modulations. Experimentally determined PSFs were scaled to provide realistic signal-distributions across a photoncounting detector array when a pulse is received, and uncoded as well as block-coded performance analyzed and evaluated for a well-known class of block codes. |
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dc.description.sponsorship |
NASA/JPL |
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dc.language.iso |
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dc.publisher |
Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2013 |
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dc.subject |
polished panel optical receiver |
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dc.subject |
on-off keying (OOK) |
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dc.subject |
quantum limits |
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dc.subject |
block codes |
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dc.subject |
optical signals |
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dc.title |
Performance evaluation of large aperture “Polished Panel” optical receivers based on experimental data |
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dc.type |
Preprint |
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