• DocumentCode
    1771853
  • Title

    A multimode fiber-coupled photon-counting optical receiver for the Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration

  • Author

    Grein, Matthew E. ; Shatrovoy, Oleg ; Murphy, Daniel V. ; Robinson, Brian S. ; Boroson, Don M.

  • Author_Institution
    Lincoln Lab., Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Lexington, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We designed and successfully demonstrated a multimode fiber-coupled photon-counting optical receiver at 1550 nm for the Lunar Laser Communications Demonstration that achieves low coupling loss through atmospheric turbulence without requiring adaptive optics.
  • Keywords
    atmospheric turbulence; optical fibre communication; optical receivers; planetary atmospheres; atmospheric turbulence; low coupling loss; lunar laser communication demonstration; multimode fiber-coupled photon-counting optical receiver; Couplings; Moon; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical receivers; Photonics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989639
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1771853