Design of the Optical Communication Demonstrator instrument optical system

This paper describes the optical system for the Optical Communication Demonstrator (OCD) instrument. With an aperture of only 4 inches, the OCD instrument is designed to demonstrate the capability of communicating from space to a ground station with a small instrument using optical wavelengths.

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