Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Inter-Satellite Optical Wireless Communication System (IsOWC) from GEO to LEO at Range 45000 km

Abstract

The importance of free-space optical (FSO) communication has increased during the last decade, introducing its unique features such as its high data rate, license-free spectrum, ease of deployability, and low power consumption. In the future, communication between low earth orbit (LEO) and geostationary earth orbit (GEO) satellites will be commonly established by using inter-satellite optical wireless communication (IsOWC) systems. That enables GEO satellites to relay information to and from LEO satellites and fixed Earth stations that otherwise cannot transmit/receive data permanently. IsOWC systems are the most effective application of the FSO, and they will be favorited shortly because of their features. In this work, we established an IsOWC between GEO and LEO satellites at a distance of 45000 km to achieve a target bit error rate (BER) equal to 10−6. Furthermore, we proposed an IsOWC system with suitable operating wavelengths. Physical techniques such as the multi-input multi-output (MIMO) technique and a wave division multiplexing (WDM) technique are employed.

Keywords

• Free-space optical communication
• inter-satellite optical wireless communication
• multi-input multi-output
• Q factor
• wave division multiplexing