Simulation method of spatial laser field for arbitrary distance optical transmission with carbon nanotube

Abstract In this paper, an arbitrary distance optical transmission simulation method for free-space optical communication system is presented. Based on this method, direct point-to-point performance tests between two optical terminals can be realized in the laboratory, and the test results are equivalent to those on-orbit. A theoretical analysis of this method is presented in this paper. Verification experiments showed that there is a good linearity between the incoming power density and output photocurrent of the carbon nanotube (CNT); the relative power difference between the CNT and the charge-coupled device (CCD) camera is 4.75%, which can be ignored compared with the link redundancy.