Research on structural design of a novel kind of lens for space laser communication

With the development of space exploration, demand of communication in space is becoming larger and larger. Nowadays more and more space missions use laser communication to transfer data. Generally speaking, there are many lenses in optical branch of a laser communication terminal. However, there are some drawbacks of traditional lenses in laser communication system. The paper focused on a novel kind of lens and did some research work. The paper gave a structural design scheme of a novel kind of lens. And then, mechanical simulation was made based on this kind of lens. After that, different types of comparison were made, which showed that the novel lens had better performance than the traditional one. In order to assemble the novel lens more conveniently, a set of tools for assembling was designed. At last, the paper made a specific process of assembling the novel lens. This novel kind of lens may give some guidance for engineers to make better lenses for future laser communication.