Patent attributes
There includes: an optical splitter splitting modulated light into local oscillator light and signal light beams; a phase adjustment unit adjusting phases of signal light beams; an optical amplification unit amplifying signal light beams phase-adjusted; an optical phased array antenna outputting signal light beams amplified to space; a phase control unit synchronizing with a reference signal light beams, output from the optical phased array antenna and multiplexed with the local oscillator light; an acquisition and tracking mechanism adjusting output angles of signal light beams; an angle detection unit detecting arrival angles of received light; and a control unit setting the reference signal to first reference signals having different frequencies, supplementing the received light based on a detection result, setting the reference signal to second reference signals having equal frequencies, and tracking the received light based on the detection result.
