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Ground-to-satellite narrow-laser-beam pointing by use of a backscattered image

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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.

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