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Inter-satellite optical wireless communication (IsOWC) systems challenges and applications: a comprehensive review

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Journal of Optical Communications
From the journal Journal of Optical Communications Volume 45 Issue 4

Abstract

Satellite communication, in over half a century have attained remarkable breakthrough in high speed transmission. These innovations, on the other hand, have come in tandem with significant performance improvements in other IT and telecommunications systems. As a result, these significant benefits are not as visible to the broader public as they would be as if this burst of performance had occurred in isolation. In nutshell, space satellite communication using optical technology provide powerful alternative to radio frequency (RF) and make communication reliable and cost effective. Satellite communications systems allow a whole new race of civilian and defence operations in surveillance, telecommunications, object tracking and space exploration. Since independent satellites are restricted by volume, space and strength, small satellites production in bulk clusters may be effective for a range of wildfire monitoring, science missions, mapping in gravity and water management exploration, among others. The development of communications satellites would provide for a more comprehensive understanding of the near-earth environment as well as a more efficient and cost-effective way of reaching space, thanks to the utilisation of multi-satellite systems. As a result, when satellites are designing, IsOWC is an utmost point to be considered. The numerous researches being performed in the satellite communications for introducing multi communications based on different orbits are described in this study. IsOWC systems over radio frequency based communication are preferred due to large bandwidth, high speed, absence of electromagnetic interference (EMI), lower transmission losses and improved security. We also present a detailed listing of challenges in Is-OWC such as Doppler shift, point ahead angle, satellite vibration and tracking, acquisition tracking and pointing (ATP) and background noise sources.

Keywords: antenna; artificial satellites; EMI; IsOWC; modulation formats; orbits
Corresponding author: Abhilasha Choudhary, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, CTAE, Udaipur, India, E-mail:

Acknowledgment

The authors would like to thank Dr. Sunil Joshi, Professor Department of ECE for his active support and guidance. The authors extend their gratitude to department of ECE, CTAE, MPUAT, Udaipur, Rajasthan for providing their motivation and encouragement.

  1. Author contributions: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.

  2. Research funding: None declared.

  3. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article.

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Received: 2022-05-02
Accepted: 2022-06-23
Published Online: 2022-08-02
Published in Print: 2024-10-28

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https://doi.org/10.1515/joc-2022-0075
Keywords for this article
antenna; artificial satellites; EMI; IsOWC; modulation formats; orbits

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  4. Devices
  5. Analysis of interferometric configuration for optical devices
  6. Fibers
  7. Applications of photonic crystal fibers in optical communication
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  9. Ambient refractive index sensitivity of long-period fiber grating (LPFG) with reduced cladding thickness using three-layer fiber geometry approach
  10. Research on novel single-mode polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber
  11. Networks
  12. Wavelength division multiplexed radio-over-fiber (WDM-RoF) system for next-generation networks with dispersion compensating fiber
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  14. Performance Investigations of Symmetric 80 Gbps TWDM NG-PON2 coexisting with GPON/XG-PON
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