Abstract
A technique for transmitting a narrow laser beam from a ground
station to a satellite has been developed. The principle of
pointing a laser beam to a distant target in a scattering medium by use
of a backscattered laser beam image is described. We calculated the
intensity distribution of the image by using a typical model of
atmospheric coefficients. The method was applied to transmit a
laser beam from a ground station to Engineering Test
Satellite-VI. The accuracy of pointing the laser beam to the
satellite was approximately 10 µrad in this
experiment.
© 2001 Optical Society of America
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