Proceedings of the International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2020-October 2020年 [査読有り]
Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) is a mission to Martian moons under development in JAXA with international partners to be launched in 2024. This paper introduces the system definition and the latest status of MMX program. “How was water delivered ...
PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE 101(6) 1438-1447 2013年6月 [査読有り]
A solar power satellite (SPS) is a renewable energy system that converts the sun's energy into electricity in space and transmits it to Earth using microwaves. The SPS concept, first proposed in 1968 in the United States, has recently started attr...
Koji Uematsu   Ken-ichiro Maki   Chiko Otani   
OPTICS EXPRESS 20(20) 22914-22921 2012年9月 [査読有り]
A terahertz (THz) beam steering method is demonstrated by applying the characteristic of grating lobe (GL) radiation from a linear array antenna and the interference of femtosecond optical pulses. A photoconductive device is illuminated by two fem...
JOURNAL OF INFRARED MILLIMETER AND TERAHERTZ WAVES 32(5) 603-617 2011年5月 [査読有り]
We have investigated the characteristics of a terahertz (THz) beam steering method based on a combination of difference-frequency generation (DFG) with the principle of the phased array antenna. In the DFG of THz radiation from a nonlinear optical...
Koji Uematsu   Ken-ichiro Maki   Chiko Otani   
2011 36TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFRARED, MILLIMETER, AND TERAHERTZ WAVES (IRMMW-THZ) 2011年 [査読有り]
We present a THz beam steering method that is based on the generation of grating lobe(GL) radiation from linear array antenna and interference principle of femtosecond laser beam. THz GL radiation with the bandwidth of 110GHz was generated from a ...
2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Innovative Wireless Power Transmission: Technologies, Systems, and Applications, IMWS-IWPT 2012 - Proceedings 131-134 2012年 [査読有り]
Toward the orbital demonstration of a solar power satellite (SPS), a breadboard model of the SPS has been developed for preliminary experiments including wireless power transmission. The model forms a thin panel structure with a thickness of 6 cm,...
2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on Innovative Wireless Power Transmission: Technologies, Systems, and Applications, IMWS-IWPT 2012 - Proceedings 191-194 2012年 [査読有り]
We are developing a bread board model for a microwave wireless power transmission (WPT) from a satellite in orbit to the ground. WPT using microwaves is one of the critical and important technologies toward a solar power satellite (SPS). We have c...