4kHz重复频率卫星激光测距系统及其应用

分析了上海天文台皮秒激光器系统在不同重复频率下的输出功率、输出波形等性能,实现了重复频率为4 kHz、功率为3 W、波长为532 nm的激光稳定输出。建立了4 kHz重复频率卫星激光测距系统,实现了4 kHz重复频率卫星测距,其测量数据量和标准点数据精度比1 kHz重复频率的分别提高了约2.62倍和1.62倍,提升了卫星观测性能。采用Lomb算法获得了Ajisai卫星自转频率(平均值为0.4234 Hz)以及自转频率准确度(0.0054 Hz),与1 kHz激光观测系统相比,4 kHz重复频率卫星激光测距系统的卫星自转测定精度显著提升。     

Space debris laser ranging with a 60 W single-frequency slab nanosecond green laser at 200 Hz

Space debris laser ranging was achieved with a 60 W, 200 Hz, 532 nm nanosecond slab, single-frequency green laser at the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory's 60 cm satellite laser ranging system. There were 174 passes of space debris measured in 2017, with the minimum radar cross section(RCS) being 0.25 m~2 and the highest ranging precision up to 13.6 cm. The RCS of space debris measured with the farthest distances in 174 passes was analyzed. The results show that the farthest measurement distance(R) and RCS(S) were fitted to R = 1388.159 S0.24312, indicating that this laser can measure the distance of 1388.159 km at an RCS of 1 m~2,which is very helpful to surveillance and research on low-Earth-orbit space debris.