Portable system integrated with time comparison, ranging, and communication

Qiongqiong Zhang, Chengkai Pang, Yurong Wang, Guangyue Shen, Lei Yang, Zhaohui Li, Haiyan Huang, Guang Wu

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Abstract

We demonstrate a portable system integrated with time comparison, absolute distance ranging, and optical communication (TRC) to meet the requirements of space gravitational wave detection. A 1 km free-space asynchronous two-way optical link is performed. The TRC realizes optical communication with 7.7 × 10−5 bit error rate with a Si avalanche photodiode single-photon detector, while the signal intensity is 1.4 photons per pulse with the background noise of 3 × 104 counts per second. The distance measurement uncertainty is 48.3 mm, and time comparison precision is 162.4 ps. In this TRC system, a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser diode with a power of 9.1 μW is used, and the equivalent receiving aperture is 0.5 mm. The TRC provides a miniaturization solution for ultra-long distance inter-satellite communication, time comparison, and ranging for space gravitational wave detectors.

Original languageEnglish
Article number100601
JournalChinese Optics Letters
Volume20
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2022

Keywords

  • gravitational waves detection
  • optical communication
  • ranging
  • time comparison

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