Industry Tutorial: Simulation of Classical & Quantum Communications over FSO Satellite Links
20 July 2022 11:00 - 12:00
Eastern Daylight/Summer Time (US & Canada) (UTC -04:00)Free space optical (FSO) communication technology based on the optical signal transmission through a free-space channel has gained significant interest in recent years. FSO satellite links have the potential to establish a global all-optical communication network that could cope with the increasing demands for high data rates and communication capacity. Moreover, satellite-based quantum key distribution (QKD) could provide secure and private communication between distant users.
VPIphotonics Design Suite offers advanced means for simulation of both classical and quantum optical communication systems for terrestrial and satellite FSO links. In this webinar, we focus on modeling aspects of FSO signal transmission in ground-to-satellite, satellite-to-ground, and intersatellite links. We will also work through a few live demos of application examples and investigate the FSO system performance in presence of such adverse effects as atmospheric scintillation, attenuation, beam diffraction, and pointing errors. In addition, we discuss the satellite-based quantum key distribution and demonstrate how the performance of the QKD link depends on a satellite's position and other link parameters.
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Speakers
Roza Navitskaya, Senior Modeling Engineer, VPI Development Center
Roza Navitskaya is a senior modeling engineer at VPI Development Center. She focuses on research and development of multimode short-reach transmission systems and free-space optical systems and takes part in creating simulation models required for such systems, including multimode VCSELs, couplers, and free-space optical channels for terrestrial and satellite links. Roza received an MSc degree in Laser Physics from Belarusian State University in 2019 and is currently working towards her PhD in the field of rogue waves in lasers.
Piotr Novik, R&D Engineer, VPIphotonics
Piotr Novik joined VPI Development Center as a modelling engineer in 2018 and in 2021 moved to VPIphotonics in Berlin, Germany as a R&D engineer. He conducts research on VPItoolkit QKD development including different QKD protocols implementation and creating simulation models of devices required for quantum key distribution. During his work at VPI Development Center he obtained a Master’s degree in Theoretical Physics from the Belarusian State University.
