M. Gökçe

Effect of point-ahead angle on scintillation in laser satellite communication systems equipped with adaptive optics

Some ground-based optical terminals used in optical uplinks employ adaptive optics (AO) to pre-correct the outgoing, data-carrying laser beams, which helps reduce scintillation and other, turbulence-induced signal im-pairments. The beacon photons can come from the satellite itself or from a natural guide star. After AO...