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Indirect measurement of a laser communications bit-error-rate reduction with low-order adaptive optics

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Abstract

In experimental measurements of the bit-error rate for a laser communication system, we show improved performance with the implementation of low-order (tip/tilt) adaptive optics in a free-space link. With simulated atmospheric tilt injected by a conventional piezoelectric tilt mirror, an adaptive optics system with a Xinetics tilt mirror was used in a closed loop. The laboratory experiment replicated a monostatic propagation with a cooperative wave front beacon at the receiver. Owing to constraints in the speed of the processing hardware, the data is scaled to represent an actual propagation of a few kilometers under moderate scintillation conditions. We compare the experimental data and indirect measurement of the bit-error rate before correction and after correction, with a theoretical prediction.

© 2003 Optical Society of America

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