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English: Shown here is a prototype of the Deep Space Optical Communications, or DSOC, ground receiver detector built by the Microdevices Laboratory at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The prototype superconducting nanowire single-photon detector was used by JPL technologists to help develop the detector that – from a station on Earth – will receive near-infrared laser signals from the DSOC flight transceiver traveling with NASA's Psyche mission in deep space.
DSOC will test key technologies that could enable high-bandwidth optical, or laser, communications from Mars distances. Bolted to the side of the spacecraft and operating for the first two years of Psyche's journey to the asteroid of the same name, the DSOC flight laser transceiver will transmit high-rate data to Caltech's Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, which houses the 200-inch (5.1-meter) Hale Telescope. The downlink detector converts optical signals to electrical signals, which can be processed and decoded. The detector is designed to be both sensitive enough to detect single photons (quantum particles of light) and able to detect many photons arriving all at once. At its farthest point during the technology demonstration's operations period, the transceiver will be up to 240 million miles (390 million kilometers) away, meaning that by the time its weak laser pulses arrive at Earth, the detector will need to efficiently detect a trickle of single photons. But when the spacecraft is closer to Earth and the flight transceiver is delivering its highest bit rate to Palomar, the detector is capable of detecting very high numbers of photons without becoming overwhelmed. Because data is encoded in the timing of the laser pulses, the detector must also be able to determine the time of a photon's arrival with a precision of 100 picoseconds (one picosecond is one trillionth of a second). Figure A is a close-up of the active area of the detector (inside the small square at the center of the photograph), where the photons from deep space are collected. The active area measures about 0.0126 inches (0.32 millimeters) across. It has 64 channels (which are connected to the gold contact strips surrounding the black inner square) capable of collectively detecting more than a billion photons per second. DSOC is the latest in a series of optical communication technology demonstrations funded by NASA's Technology Demonstrations Missions (TDM) program and the agency's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program. JPL, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages DSOC for TDM within NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate and SCaN within the agency's Space Operations Mission Directorate.Deutsch: Das Bild zeigt einen Prototyp des DSOC-Empfängerdetektors (Deep Space Optical Communications), der vom Microdevices Laboratory am Jet Propulsion Laboratory der NASA in Südkalifornien gebaut wurde. Der Prototyp eines supraleitenden Nanodraht-Einzelphotonendetektors wurde von JPL-Technologen verwendet, um den Detektor zu entwickeln, der - von einer Station auf der Erde aus - Nahinfrarot-Lasersignale vom DSOC-Flugtransceiver empfangen wird, der mit der Psyche-Mission der NASA im tiefen Weltraum unterwegs ist.
DSOC wird Schlüsseltechnologien testen, die eine optische oder Laserkommunikation mit hoher Bandbreite über Marsentfernungen ermöglichen könnten. Das DSOC-Fluglaser-Transceiver ist an der Seite der Raumsonde befestigt und wird in den ersten zwei Jahren der Reise von Psyche zum gleichnamigen Asteroiden Daten mit hoher Geschwindigkeit an das Palomar-Observatorium des Caltech in San Diego County, Kalifornien, übertragen, das das 5,1-Meter-Hale-Teleskop (200 Zoll) beherbergt. Der Downlink-Detektor wandelt optische Signale in elektrische Signale um, die verarbeitet und dekodiert werden können. |
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