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From photonic components to transceiversJérôme Hauden

EPIC Meeting @ ESA- September 2019

iXblue GroupAt a glance:

French Industrial group founded in 2000 Employees > 600 Incomes 120M€ (80% Export.) 8 industrials sites in France 11 offices abroad (support and sales) 2 joint research labs 100% of R&D and production based in France

La CiotatSonarsSea OperationsShipyard

BrestUnderwater Acoustic PositioningAcoustic Labcom

LannionSpecial Fibers Navigation

Bonneuil-sur-MarneMotion Systems

BesançonIntegrated optics

Saint-Germain-en-LayeNavigation Headquarters

St EtienneHardened optical fibers Labcom

BordeauxCold Atoms Labcom

Photonic:

Besancon: Photonic Modulation solutions

St Germain en Laye: Fiber Optic Gyro

Lannion : Special Fibers (radhard doped fiber)

Modulation Solution DivisionDivision Description:

iXblue Besançon: former Photline Technologies, created in september2000

Full merger within iXblue 1st of January 2015 Staff > 50 ISO 9001-2008 Quality Insurance certification. Incomes >10ME in 2018 manufacturing capability 2500m² with 1000m² clean space & 400m² clean

room

Modulation Solution Division (iXBlue MSD)Products:

Modulation Solution DivisionMain markets:

Sensors: Distributed T° Sensors Lidar Telemetry & range finding material mapping

Optical communication: Datacom/ datacenter QK Distribustion Analog Radio over Fiber Space com

Fiber Lasers: High energy lasers Mil. & Scientific Welding and cutting

LN External Modulators

Modulation through Electrooptic effect (change of refractive index due to a E-field)-->phase modulation of the output optical field

Possibility to build complex waveguide architecture associated with large bandwidth electrodes (up to 65GHz)

MZ-interferometers (amplitude modulator, analog or data transm) Dual Parallel MZM (QPSK, CS-SSB modulation…) Other….

(Very) Basic principle of operating:

LiNbO3 photonic components in space

iXblue MSD Space ActivitiesLiNbO3 Photonic Components for Space (FOG chips):

Fiber Optic Gyros: rotation measurement

2005- … : navigation, precision positioning iXSpace (iXBlue group) End user: Astrix IMU

3-4 x LN double phase modulators chips per unit Used for signal processing wavelength: ~1550 nm low frequency: <100 MHz

about 200 hundred chips over a 3 year program as of today >100 axis delivered with 40 axis already launched and operating

iXFiber, fiber coils

H. Lefevre "The Fiber- Optic Gyroscope" , second edtion, Artech House, ISBN: 9781608076963

Sens. up to 10-4 °/h

iXblue MSD Space ActivitiesLiNbO3 Photonic Components for Space (high speed modulators):

Beginning of the story, NASA MISSE 7:Materials International Space Station Experiment

2009-2011

Off the shelf MXPE, 1060nm 18 months outside ISS (Off- state)

No performance degradation

iXblue MSD Space Activities

On-board Laser cavity stabilization:

2013-2014: Laser cavity stabilization Mission : GRACE Follow- on II, earth gravity cartography

Photline customer: JPL-NASA (2013-2014)

Technology : 8 FM NIR-MPX-LN Phase modulator delivered All space evaluated (Thermal cycling, screening, vibrations…) 4 are flying (2 per satellite) X-cut lithium niobate and APE process wavelength: 1060 nm low frequency: 100 MHz

Launched on May 22nd 2018

Klaus Abich & al, "In-Orbit Performance of the GRACE Follow-on Laser Ranging Interferometer", Phys Rev Lett 123, 031101 (2019)

LiNbO3 Photonic Components for Space (high speed modulators):

Laser Communication Telescopes:

2014 – … : ~ 120 LN modulators for different flying users worldwide (Big Players & Space agencies) 12 FM Phase & amplitude modulators @1060nm, 0.1 & 10GHz 13 FM Amplitude modulators (2.5Gbs RZ-DPSK) @1550nm 2x 25 EM Phase & amplitude modulators @1550nm, 5Gbs 35 EM Amplitude modulators @1550nm, 5Gbs LEO- LEO & LEO to Ground Communications

iXblue MSD Space Activities

ESA/ Airbus ESATESAT

LiNbO3 Photonic Components for Space (high speed modulators):

iXblue MSD Space Activities

Evaluation, Reliability, Qualification :

Mechanical and thermal qualification Accelerated aging Irradiation gamma and protons, Single Event Effect Vacuum, DPAs….(arching, solderability….)

CNES & ESA Support & Projects:

2010-2012: evaluation of reliability of optical modulators for spaceconditions

2012-2013 : study of a reflective modulator for array of antenna 2013-2015 (2016) : optimization of hermetic packaging aiming ideal

compliance with space requests 2016-2019: Z-cut Dual Drive modulators- Development of anti pyro

solutions for space applications

2002-2006: Sat'N'Light 2006-2014 MGOM- ARTES 5 2008-2014 OMCU- ARTES 5

LiNbO3 Photonic Components for Space (high speed modulators):

To photonic transceivers in space

iXblue MSD Space Activities

Feeder Optical Link for Constellations (ESA- FOLC):

Partnership Airbus DS, CILAS, iXBlue, 2017-2019 Evaluation of 10 & 25Gbs OOK, DPSK systems Including 5W-Booster, LNOAs from iXblue (radhard doped fibers) Mux/DMux 12 possible channels Tx – Rx

Components with potential space compatibility Or already qualified ones

Path to optical transceivers:(ESA- FOLC)

Eye Diagram. & BER vs ROP, OOK & 10Gb/s DPSK@25Gb/s

iXblue MSD Space ActivitiesPath to optical transceivers:(ESA- FOLC)

Tx & Rx Unit characterization

Evaluation of Channel bandwidth, BER vs power Consumption Including: Doppler effect, scintillations, non linearities… Both uplink and downlink

best scenario for each application & link

T. Anfray, & al. "Assessment of the performance of DPSK and OOK modulations at 25 Gb/sfor satellite-based optical communications", ICSOS 2019, 14-16 Oct. 2019, PortlandOregon, USA

iXblue MSD Space ActivitiesPath to optical transceivers: what's next: ESA- FOLC2

ESA FOLC2: ready to flight transceivers

Partnership Airbus DS, CILAS, iXblue From the best scenarios of FOLC Last optimization Accommodation Additional qualification tests

End of 2020, Mid 2021

Compact optical channel emitter:Combo: DFB Laser, OOK10Gb/s-DPSK25Gb/s LN Modulator and RF Driver in a single package (plug & play)

15mm

iXblue MSD Space ActivitiesSpace R&T Communications:

Some Conferences & Publications:

ISROS Guideline “Reliability assurance guideline for lithium niobate-based electro-optical modulators” (ISROS_GL_001_V01) H. Porte, A. Le Kernec, L. Peñate, I. Esquivias, H. Brahimi, J Barbero, A. Mottet, M. Sotom "Optimization and evaluation in space conditions

of multi-ghz optical modulators" ICSO'14, International Conference on Space Optics, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, 7 - 10 October 2014 H. Brahimi-Boualam, S. Jillard, Y. Michaux, A. Mottet, D. Veyrié, O. Gilard, “Recent Progress on the Reliability and Hermeticity of Space

Grade LiNbO3 Modulators”, ISROS 2016, June 6-9, 2016, Otwock, Poland. A. Mottet, S. Jillard, J. Hauden, N. Grossard, H. Porte, J. Tchahame, D. Veyrié, O. Gilard," Packaging improvement of LiNbO3 modulators

and space evaluation results", International Conference on Space Optics, ICSO 2018, 9-12 Oct. 2018, Chania, Greece. G. Martin ; T. Pugnat ; F. Gardillou ; C. Cassagnettes ; D. Barbier ; C. Guyot ; J. Hauden ; E. Huby ; S. Lacour, "Novel multi-telescopes beam

combiners for next generation instruments (FIRST/SUBARU)", SPIE 9907, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging V, Edinburgh,United Kingdom June 26, 2016. Proc. SPIE 9907, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging V, 990738.

G. Martin, F. Gardillou, C. Cassagnettes, D. Barbier, C. Guyot, J. Hauden, G. Ulliac, N. Courjal, N. Cvetojevic, E. Huby, S. Lacour, "First resultson an electro-optic visible multi-telescope beam combiner for next generation FIRST/SUBARU instruments", SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation, 10-15 June 2018, Austin – Texas, USA.

Klaus Abich & al., "In-Orbit Performance of the GRACE Follow-on Laser Ranging Interferometer", Phys Rev Lett 123, 031101 (2019) T. Anfray, J. Hulin, S. Poulenard, P. Berceau, S. Mariojouls, L. Blarre, W. Atitallah, A. Mottet, A. Laurent, J.-J. Bonnefois, J. Hauden, H. Porte,

T. Schmitt, R. Cousty. "Assessment of the performance of DPSK and OOK modulations at 25 Gb/s for satellite-based opticalcommunications", ICSOS 2019, 14-16 Oct. 2019, Portland Oregon, USA

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