Modeling of 2.5 Gbps-intersatellite link (ISL) in inter-satellite opticalwireless communication (IsOWC) system

摘要

Free-space optics (FSO) has the combined features of most dominated telecommunication technologies:wireless and fiber optics. Many of the aspects of FSO are related to fiber optics with an important differenceof transmission medium which is air/free space rather than the glass of the fiber-optic cable. Inter-satellite optical wireless communication systems (IsOWC), one of the important applications of FSO/WSOtechnology, will be deployed in space in the near future as such systems provide a high bandwidth, smallsize, light weight, low power and low cost alternative to present microwave satellite systems. In thispaper, we have designed a model of IsOWC system using OPTI-SYSTEMTMsimulator to establish an inter-satellite link (ISL) between two satellites estranged by a distance of 1000 km at data rate of 2.5 Gbpswhich is not reported in previous investigated works.