Laser beam shaping improves the transmission efficiency of Cassegrain antenna

Miaofang Zhou; Huajun Yang; Ping Jiang; Weinan Caiyang; Yan Qin; Biao Cao

doi:10.1117/12.2575747

5 November 2020 Laser beam shaping improves the transmission efficiency of Cassegrain antenna

Miaofang Zhou, Huajun Yang, Ping Jiang, Weinan Caiyang, Yan Qin, Biao Cao

Proceedings Volume 11568, AOPC 2020: Optics Ultra Precision Manufacturing and Testing; 115680G (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2575747
Event: Applied Optics and Photonics China (AOPC 2020), 2020, Beijing, China

Abstract

Since the central part of laser beam cannot be transmitted through the traditional Cassegrain antenna, thus a large energy loss is caused. To improve the transmission efficiency of traditional Cassegrain antenna, a pair of lenses is designed and set between the laser source and traditional Cassegrain antenna in this paper. The parameters of the pair of lenses and Cassegrain antenna system is determined and the energy distribution after the laser beam passing through the pair of lenses is discussed in detail. Based on three dimensional vector refraction and reflection theory, the ray tracing of the entire communication system and the chart of the transmission efficiency are simulated with MATLAB. From the chart, it can be concluded that proper laser beam shaping can improve the transmission efficiency of the entire communication system up to 100% at the wavelength of 1550 nm under ideal condition. After taking several practical factors such as the reflectivity of the mirror composing the Cassegrain antenna, the transmissivity and chamfering of the pair of lenses and the dispersion of the material into account, the transmission efficiency of the entire system can still be increased to 95.54% at the wavelength of 1550 nm. Compared with designing complex antenna systems, the method presented in this paper is more practical and convenient for optical communication.

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Miaofang Zhou, Huajun Yang, Ping Jiang, Weinan Caiyang, Yan Qin, and Biao Cao "Laser beam shaping improves the transmission efficiency of Cassegrain antenna", Proc. SPIE 11568, AOPC 2020: Optics Ultra Precision Manufacturing and Testing, 115680G (5 November 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2575747

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Antennas

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