ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026
High-Precision Laser Time-Frequency Synchronization in Space Based on an Improved Kalman Filtering Method.
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To provide a ground-based experimental reference for free-space optical time-frequency synchronization in future space applications, this paper investigates the impact of beam drift and dynamic link-state variations on free-space laser links. A bidirectional free-space laser time-frequency synchronization and ranging system is established and the synchronization process is uniformly modeled. An improved Kalman filtering method based on innovation consistency is proposed in which a strong tracking mechanism enhances adaptability to model mismatch and abnormal observations; at the same time, an adaptive observation noise modeling strategy based on online statistical estimation characterizes the time-varying noise properties of free-space optical links. Experimental validation is conducted using an equivalent free-space laser link of approximately 321 m. The results show that the proposed method improves the time synchronization accuracy from 78.32 ps to 45.64 ps, corresponding to an enhancement of about 41%. In terms of time stability, the time deviation (TDEV) is reduced from 7.14×10-11 s to 4.33×10-11 s at an averaging time of τ=1 s, and from 4.20×10-12 s to 7.01×10-13 s at τ=800 s. For ranging performance, the system achieves an average measured distance of 321.56 m with a ranging standard deviation of 15.2 mm. These results demonstrate that the proposed approach enables high-precision and stable state estimation for integrated free-space laser time-frequency synchronization and ranging systems.
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