6 x 20Gbps Long Reach WDM-PI based High Altitude Platform Inter-Satellite Communication System

Abstract

InterSatellite communication is one of the remarkable technologies in the era of high altitude platform (HAP) communication system. This work is focused on the transmission of six channels, each carrying 20Gbps non return to zero (NRZ) data over inter-satellite link of 3500Km by adopting wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) and polarization interleaving (PI) scheme. The results are reported in terms of signal to noise ratio (SNR), total received power and eye diagrams which show successful transmission of 20x6Gbps data up to 3500km.