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The compact, radiation resistant low-noise optical fiber pre-amplifier developed in ORIONAS was presented at this year’s IEEE International Conference on Space Optical Systems and Applications (ICSOS) 2022 that took place as a virtual event. The presentation included project results on radiation testing, AIT of bread-board and Engineering Model as well as functional testing in a system testbed.

ORIONAS DPSK transmitter optical sub-assembly prototype ORIONAS progress on manufacturing, assembly and packaging of DPSK optical transmitter, receiver and low-noise pre-amplifier was presented at 2022 SPIE Photonics West. The presentation was part of SPIE LASE, Free-Space Laser Communications XXXIV session. Leontios Stampoulidis (project co-ordinator) was invited to present the talk titled "H2020-SPACE-ORIONAS miniaturized optical transceivers and amplifiers for high-speed optical inter-satellite links". Paper abstract: The European H2020-SPACE-ORIONAS project targets the development of optical transceiver and amplifier integrated circuits and modules applicable to high-speed and compact laser communication terminals. This paper presents the most recent project achievements in two areas. Firstly, the fabrication of high-speed electronic-photonic modulator and receiver circuits monolithically integrated in the silicon…

The summary of ORIONAS second reporting period has been published on cordis website. Read the objectives, work performed and progress beyond the state-of-the-art achieved within the first 24 months of the project lifetime.

BER performance of integrated coherent receiver for medium reach optical interconnects IHP has published the paper titled: "Toward coherent O-band data center interconnects" in Frontiers in Optoelectronics. The paper presents the application of electronic-photonic integrated coherent receivers in spin-out telecom applications such as medium reach datacenter interconnects. The link to the publication is: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12200-021-1242-0

ORIONAS optical pre-amplifier CAD model Liam Henwood-Moroney from G&H presented work on "Miniaturized optical communications modules for space applications". The presentation included the joint work with LEO Space Photonics on the design and preliminary functional testing of ORIONAS radiation resistant, compact optical pre-amplifier. The paper is now accessible through SPIE digital library as Open access publication. Paper abstract: In order to meet the future data rate requirements for micro- and nano-satellites, optical communications has been identified as a key enabling technology. This paper presents the latest developments at G&H in realizing the next-generation of optical communications sub-systems for SmallSat and Cubesat applications. Two C-band laser transmitter versions are presented, each generating 200mW within the…

ORIONAS DPSK Receiver electronic-photonic integrated circuit ORIONAS optical inter-satellite link architecture and DPSK modulator and receiver PIC design and fabrication was presented in the International Conference on Space Optics (ICSO 2020) organized by ESA and CNES. Leontios Stampoulidis (project co-ordinator) from LEO Space Photonics presented the talk titled: "The H2020-SPACE-ORIONAS project: “Lasercom-on-chip” for high-speed satellite constellation interconnectivity". The paper is now accessible through SPIE digital library as Open access publication. Paper abstract: H2020-SPACE-ORIONAS is a 3-year Research and Innovation Action program funded by the European Commission focusing on the development of compact optical transceiver and amplifier modules applicable to new generation optical inter-satellite links. ORIONAS explores photonic integrated circuits and small form factor fiber…

Gooch and Housego and LEO Space Photonics report ORIONAS work on the design and functional performance of the compact, radiation resistant low noise optical fiber pre-amplifier.

Our paper "The H2020-SPACE-ORIONAS Project “Lasercom-on-chip” for High-speed Satellite Constellation Interconnectivity" has been accepted as an oral presentation at the International Conference on Space Optics 2020. ICSO will take place as a virtual event from 30 March to 2 April. The link to the conference programme is https://icso2020.com/. You may download the abstract by clicking the link below. EU-H2020-SPACE-ORIONAS-822002-ICSO-abstractDownload

The summary of ORIONAS first reporting period has been published on cordis website. Click the link below to read the objectives, work performed and progress beyond the state-of-the-art achieved within the first 12 months of the project lifetime. https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/822002/reporting

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