Subjects: Astronomy >> Astronomical Instruments and Techniques submitted time 2024-02-07 Cooperative journals: 《天文技术与仪器(英文)》
Abstract: In this paper, the mission and the thermal environment of the Solar Close Observations and Proximity Experiments (SCOPE) spacecraft are analyzed, and an advanced thermal management system (ATMS) is designed for it. The relationship and functions of the integrated database, the intelligent thermal control system and the efficient liquid cooling system in the ATMS are elaborated upon. For the complex thermal field regulation system and extreme space thermal environment, a modular simulation and thermal field planning method are proposed, and the feasibility of the planning algorithm is verified by numerical simulation. A solar array liquid cooling system is developed, and the system simulation results indicate that the temperatures of the solar arrays meet the requirements as the spacecraft flies by perihelion and aphelion. The advanced thermal management study supports the development of the SCOPE program and provides a reference for the thermal management in other deep-space exploration programs.
Subjects: Astronomy >> Astrophysical processes submitted time 2023-02-19
Abstract: We propose to develop a wide-field and ultra-high-precision photometric survey mission, temporarily named "Earth 2.0 (ET)". This mission is designed to measure, for the first time, the occurrence rate and the orbital distributions of Earth-sized planets. ET consists of seven 30cm telescopes, to be launched to the Earth-Sun's L2 point. Six of these are transit telescopes with a field of view of 500 square degrees. Staring in the direction that encompasses the original Kepler field for four continuous years, this monitoring will return tens of thousands of transiting planets, including the elusive Earth twins orbiting solar-type stars. The seventh telescope is a 30cm microlensing telescope that will monitor an area of 4 square degrees toward the galactic bulge. This, combined with simultaneous ground-based KMTNet observations, will measure masses for hundreds of long-period and free-floating planets. Together, the transit and the microlensing telescopes will revolutionize our understandings of terrestrial planets across a large swath of orbital distances and free space. In addition, the survey data will also facilitate studies in the fields of asteroseismology, Galactic archeology, time-domain sciences, and black holes in binaries.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review
Subjects: Optics >> Quantum optics submitted time 2023-02-19
Abstract: Silicon modulators are key components in silicon photonics to support the dense integration of electro-optic (EO) functional elements on a compact chip for various applications including high-speed data transmission, signal processing, and photonic computing. Despite numerous advances in promoting the operation speed of silicon modulators, a bandwidth ceiling of 67 GHz emerges in practices and becomes an obstacle to paving silicon photonics toward Tbps level data throughput on a single chip. Here, we theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate a design strategy for silicon modulators by employing the slow light effect, which shatters the present bandwidth ceiling of silicon modulators and pushes its limit beyond 110 GHz in a small footprint. The proposed silicon modulator is built on a coupled-resonator optical waveguide (CROW) architecture, in which a set of Bragg gratings are appropriately cascaded to give rise to a slow light effect. By comprehensively balancing a series of merits including the group index, photon lifetime, electrical bandwidth, and losses, we found the modulators can benefit from the slow light for better modulation efficiency and compact size while remaining their bandwidth sufficiently high to support ultra-high-speed data transmission. Consequently, we realize a modulator with an EO bandwidth of 110 GHz in a length of 124 {\mu}m, and demonstrate a data rate beyond 110 Gbps by applying simple on-off keying modulation for a DSP-free operation. Our work proves that silicon modulators beyond 110 GHz are feasible, thus shedding light on the potentials of silicon photonics in ultra-high-bandwidth applications such as data communication, optical interconnection, and photonic machine learning.
Peer Review Status:Awaiting Review