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Organizing energy-and-information exchange between devices for controlling the shape of a transformable antenna, using fiber-optic technology

Matveev, S.A., Strakhov, S.Y., Khromikhin, D.A., Kim, A.A., Dukelskiy, K.V.

Publication in Journal of Optical Technology

For Russian citation (Opticheskii Zhurnal):

Матвеев С.А., Страхов С.Ю., Хромихин Д.А., Ким А.А., Дукельский К.В. Организация энергоинформационного обмена между устройствами управления формой трансформируемой антенны с применением волоконно-оптических технологий // Оптический журнал. 2016. Т. 83. № 11. С. 73–78.

Matveev S.A., Strakhov S.Yu., Khromikhin D.A., Kim A.A., Dukelskiy K.V. Organizing energy-and-information exchange between devices for controlling the shape of a transformable antenna, using fiber-optic technology [in Russian] // Opticheskii Zhurnal. 2016. V. 83. № 11. P. 73–78.

For citation (Journal of Optical Technology):

S. A. Matveev, S. Yu. Strakhov, D. A. Khromikhin, A. A. Kim, and K. V. Dukel’skiĭ, "Organizing energy-and-information exchange between devices for controlling the shape of a transformable antenna, using fiber-optic technology," Journal of Optical Technology. 83(11), 703-707 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1364/JOT.83.000703

Abstract:

This paper analyzes the possibility of transporting energy and information to the actuators of a space-based transformable antenna along a fiber-optic channel. The main technical and functional requirements of such a system are considered, along with ways to put it into practice. A prototype of a fiber-optic system based on commercially available components for energy-and-information exchange between actuators has been assembled and tested.

Keywords:

optical fiber line, transmission of energy over optic fiber, photoelectric conversion, semiconductor lasers, space basing transformable antenna

Acknowledgements:

The research was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (Minobrnauka) (RFMEFI 57715 X 0201).
This work was carried out at the D. F. Ustinov VOENMEKh Baltic State Technical University on the equipment of the TsKP Center of Innovation Technologies, the TsKP Educational and Research Center of Expert Testing and Quality Monitoring of New Functional Materials of Innovation and Nanotechnologies, the TsKP
Center for the Study of Materials, and the TsKP Center of Space Technologies.

OCIS codes: 060.3510; 040.5350

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