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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Novel architectures for broadband free-space optical communications: deep-space and terrestrial optical links

Hashmi, Ali Javed 22 April 2010 (has links)
The main objective of this research is to design, simulate, and evaluate telescope array-based receiver architectures for the inter-planetary optical communication links, which is able to provide broadband data support for future deep-space and universe exploration missions. The major aspects of this research are as follows: (1) evaluation and performance comparison of telescope arrays-based receiver with a large, monolithic telescope-based receiver, (2) mathematical modeling and analysis of the impact of various limiting factors (i.e., background noise, atmospheric turbulence, synchronization and tracking errors) on the performance of optical array receiver, (3) design and evaluation of subsystems and adaptive signal processing algorithms for the mitigation of the above-mentioned deleterious effects, and (4) development of an end-to-end simulation and analysis platform for an optical communication link between a transmitter in Mars orbit and an Earth-based array receiver after integration of the proposed sub-systems. In the second part of this research, I aim to extend the analysis to the free-space, short-range, terrestrial optical communication links. In this part, the objective is the development of the efficient simulation tools for the analysis of receiver performance and optical beam propagation through turbulent atmospheric channel. In the experimental part of the research, the investigation of the use of adaptive optics (AO) subsystems for turbulence and background noise compensation in the deep-space optical communication links will be carried out.
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Etoile Laser Polychromatique pour l’Optique Adaptative : modélisation de bout-en-bout, concepts et étude des systèmes optiques / Polychromatic Laser Guide Star for Adaptive Optics : end-to-end model, concepts and study of optical systems

Meilard, Nicolas 18 July 2012 (has links)
L’étoile laser polychromatique (ELP) fournit la référence de phase à une optique adaptative (OA)pour corriger les surfaces d’onde turbulentes, y compris leur pente. L’ELP, générée dans la mésosphère parune excitation résonnante à deux photons du sodium, repose sur la déviation chromatique des images. Uneimagerie dans le visible devient possible, et est indispensable pour 80% des programmes astrophysiquesprioritaires de l'E-ELT.L’ELP requiert un écart-type des mesures de position 26 fois inférieur au cas classique. Cela m’a amené àétudier le projecteur laser interférométrique. J’ai mis au point un correcteur de base polychromatique pourégaliser la période des franges et un correcteur de phase pour compenser la réfraction atmosphérique. J’aiétudié l'optique de mesure des franges, et de séparation entre l'ELP et l’objet observé.La précision requise m’a conduit à étudier dans quelles conditions l’algorithme du maximum devraisemblance tend vers la borne de Cramér-Rao.J’ai également développé un modèle numérique de bout en bout pour simuler l’ELP depuis les lasersjusqu’à la mesure du rapport de Strehl. Je montre que pour un VLT, les rapports de Strehl sont supérieurs à40% à 500 nm sans étoile de référence, en prenant une OA qui aurait donné 50% instantané (Strehl depente : 80%). Une approche analytique valide ces résultats.Enfin, j’aborde l’application de l’ELP aux télécommunications interplanétaires et à la destruction des débrisorbitaux. / The polychromatic laser guide star (PLGS) provides adaptive optics (AO) with a phase referenceto correct corrugated wavefronts, including tip tilt. It relies on the chromatic dispersion of light returnedfrom the 2-photon resonant excitation of sodium in the mesosphere. Diffraction limited imaging in thevisible then becomes possible. This is mandatory for 80% of the prominent astrophysical cases for the EELT.A PLGS requires standard deviations of position measurements 26 times less than in classical cases. Thus Ihave studied the interferometric laser projector. I have designed a polychromatic base corrector to equalizethe fringe periods, a phase corrector to compensate atmospheric refraction and the optics for fringemeasurements and for keeping apart the PLGS from the science target images.The required accuracy leads me to study how the maximum likelihood algorithm approaches the Cramer-Rao bound.I have written an end-to-end code for numerical simulations of the PLGS, from the lasers to the Strehlmeasurement. I get for the VLT Strehl ratios larger than 40% at 500 nm if one uses an AO providing us a50% instantaneous Strehl (tip tilt Strehl : 80%). An analytical model validates these results.Finally I address the application of the PLGS to deep space communications and to space debris clearing.

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