AR-80-OPT Optical Multi-Mission Receiver
The AR-80-OPT Optical Multi-Mission Receiver is a receiver dedicated to support the processing of optical direct-to-earth links. It is designed for multi-mission support to enable effective ground station design. Optical On-Off-Keying (O3K) and High-Photon-Efficiency (HPE) transmissions can be processed via a common input that operates either based on hard-decision decoding or the processing of logarithmic-likelihood-ratios (LLR).
An additional Soft-Decision Front-End (SDFE) device is available for bit synchronization to LLRs in combination with the AR-80-OPT. That will also allow installations of the AR-80-OPT independently from the telescope location.
