Highly accurate tracking system for a laser communications link

Donald Russell; Homayoon Ansari

doi:10.1117/12.178978

5 July 1994 Highly accurate tracking system for a laser communications link

Donald Russell, Homayoon Ansari

Proceedings Volume 2221, Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing VIII; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.178978
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1994, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

A high frame rate CCD camera with interface to a digital signal processor has been developed for a pointing control loop for laser communications. The CCD array is operated in a windowed- read mode with the digital signal processor controlling the vertical and horizontal shifts in the image and storage planes. Development of the camera and interface hardware for a demonstration of precision beam pointing is presented.

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Donald Russell and Homayoon Ansari "Highly accurate tracking system for a laser communications link", Proc. SPIE 2221, Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing VIII, (5 July 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.178978

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