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Due to high data rates and reliability, inter-satellite laser communication has developed rapidly in these days. However, the stability of the laser beam pointing is still a key technique which needs to be solved; otherwise, the beam pointing jitter noise would reduce the communication quality or, even worse, would make the inter-satellite laser communication impossible. For this purpose, a bench-top of the fine beam pointing control system has been built and tested for inter-satellite laser communication. The pointing offset of more than 100 μrad is produced by the steering mirror. With beam pointing control system turned on, the offset could be rapidly suppressed to lower than 100 nrad in less than 0.5 s. Moreover, the pointing stability can be kept at 40 nrad for yaw motion and 62 nrad for pitch motion, when the received beam jitter is set at 20 μrad.
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Dong, Y., Liu, H., Luo, Z. et al. Principle demonstration of fine pointing control system for inter-satellite laser communication. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 58, 449–453 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-015-5776-5
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