Electrical Engineering/Physics/Computer Science Internship/Master Thesis Student (m/f/d)
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Internship Explorer
Internship Explorer
Optical satellite links provide high and secure throughput both between satellites and between the satellites and the ground. In order to further increase throughput, coherent optical communication is one of the research areas of interest. To reduce hardware complexity of coherent optical receivers, the parts of the receiver may be shifted into the digital domain using intradyne receivers, opening up new possibilities for signal processing to compensate for channel effects such as Doppler shift and its rate, ADC/DAC sampling frequency offset as well as atmospheric turbulence. This task aims to evaluate a new family of radiation-hardened FPGA SoCs for optical satellite communications. The works supports the goal of evaluating optical waveforms for robust communication within the space environment including Doppler shift and radiation effects, which is essential to enable technologies such as non-terrestrial 5G/6G networks. The laboratory setup provided to the student consists of a radiation-hardened FPGA evaluation board, which is connected to a host Linux computer via JTAG and UART. The host computer is remotely accessible via SSH.
