• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 17, Issue 5, 051404 (2019)
Haifeng Zhang1、2, Mingliang Long1、*, Huarong Deng1, Zhibo Wu1、2, Zhien Cheng1, and Zhongping Zhang1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200030, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Space Object and Debris Observation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL201917.051404 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Haifeng Zhang, Mingliang Long, Huarong Deng, Zhibo Wu, Zhien Cheng, Zhongping Zhang. Space debris laser ranging with a 60  W single-frequency slab nanosecond green laser at 200  Hz[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2019, 17(5): 051404 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    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 m2 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 = 1388.159S0.24312, indicating that this laser can measure the distance of 1388.159 km at an RCS of 1 m2, which is very helpful to surveillance and research on low-Earth-orbit space debris.
    n0=ληqhc×EtArρScosθπθt2R4×T2×ηt×ηr×α,(1)

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    P=1en0.(2)

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    R=(ληqhc×EtArρScosθπθt2n0×T2×ηt×ηr×α)0.25S0.25.(3)

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    y=1388.159x0.243,(4)

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    Haifeng Zhang, Mingliang Long, Huarong Deng, Zhibo Wu, Zhien Cheng, Zhongping Zhang. Space debris laser ranging with a 60  W single-frequency slab nanosecond green laser at 200  Hz[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2019, 17(5): 051404
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