Optical space communications: a key building block for wide area space networks

Author

Chan, Vincent W S

Author_Institution

Lab. for Inf. & Decision Syst., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

41

Abstract

Space laser communications technology has been under development for over thirty years. The technology promises high capacity, low power consumption, light weight, small sizes and low costs for satellite crosslinks. It will be a key and critical building block for wide area space networks, supporting mobile users (terrestrial, airborne and spaceborne), high speed data services for small satellite terminals and serving as a backbone network for high speed trunking

Keywords

laser beam applications; optical links; satellite links; space communication links; WDM free space optical networks; backbone network; high capacity; high speed trunking; light weight; low cost; low power consumption; optical space communications; satellite crosslinks; small size; space laser communications technology; wide area space networks; Costs; High speed optical techniques; Optical beams; Optical design; Optical feedback; Optical fiber networks; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Satellite broadcasting; Space technology;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS '99. IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1999 12th Annual Meeting

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5634-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.1999.813466

Filename

813466