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QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION SPACE-TO-FIBRE ARCHITECTURE BASED ON TWIN-FIELD PROTOCOL (ARTES 4.0 SPL 4S 6C.047 )
The objective of this activity is to design, develop and test a twin field Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) architecture, to enable end users to receive keys without compromising security when located up to several hundred kilometres away from the satellite opticalground station.
WIDEBAND BASEBAND RECEIVER WITH COMPENSATED BEAM SQUINTING FOR USER TERMINALS (ARTES 4.0 AT 7B.072) - RE-ISSUE
The objective of the activity is to design and validate the baseband receiver of a user terminal to compensate for beam squint adopting equalisation techniques. The goal is to maintain the end-to-end performance for wideband carrier, large phased arrays and large scanning angles.Targeted Improvements: Up to 3 dB link quality improvement for wideband carriers (500 MHz or larger) and large scan angles of representative active antenna array opera…
REAL-TIME DEMONSTRATION OF ERASURE CORRECTING CODE FOR OPTICAL FEEDER LINKS (ARTES 4.0 SL SPL 3C.048)
The objective of the activity is to develop and test a real time 100 Gbps erasure code (both coder and decoder components) for optical feeder link protection.Targeted Improvements:Ensure high availability nominally required in feeder links by exceeding 99.5% of link availability due to atmospheric turbulence.Description:The use of terrestrial COTS optical transceivers in optical ground-space and space to space link will enable high throughput…
FREE-SPACE COHERENT OPTICAL LINK FOR TIME AND FREQUENCY TRANSFER (ARTES 4.0 SL SPL 5F.041)
The objective of the activity is to develop and prototype a free-space optical Frequency and Timing transfer solution over a coherent optical link optimised for the use case of linking critical infrastructure and metrology applications.Targeted Improvements:The two parameters to be improved over existing RF-based techniques are time and frequency transfer accuracy (factor 5 to 10 improvement), resistance to interference and robustness of the l…
W-BAND RF PASSIVE HARDWARE FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT TELECOMMUNICATION PAYLOADS (ARTES 4.0 AT 5C.502) - RE-ISSUE
The objective of the activity is to design, manufacture and test low-loss W-band RF passive equipment (filters, multiplexers and transmission lines) for future very high throughput telecommunication payloads. Targeted Improvements: Enabling technology for W-band payloads. Description: W-band has the potential to provide the feeder link capacity needed for future Very High Throughput Satellites (VHTS). The frequency allocation for this band all…