Design of Binocular Active Free Space Optics Transmission Apparatus

This paper proposes binocular active free space optics system. It presents the scheme of optical mesh network, and configuration of laser beam alignment system. Active free space optics apparatus is newly designed to facilitate its installation. Ray tracing simulations provide the desirable optical system for long distance transmission. A prototype of the binocular active free space optics mechanism is constructed for some fundamental experiments. The results disclose elementally features of the mechanism. They also clarify the ability of the proposed system by evaluating the quality of transmission.