Overview of the ground-to-orbit lasercom demonstration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2990, Issue , 1997, Pages 23-30

  Wilson, Keith E ^a   Lesh, James R ^a   Araki, Kenichi ^b   Arimoto, Yoshinori ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

ETS VI; Lasercom; Optical communications

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; DEMONSTRATIONS; LASERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; ORBITS; PHOTONICS; POWER CONTROL; SPACECRAFT EQUIPMENT; VEGETATION; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL LINKS; PERFORMANCE; SPACECRAFT; TELEMETERING; TRANSMITTERS;

BIT ERRORS; CALIFORNIA; ETS-VI; GROUND STATIONS; KEY OBJECTIVE; LASER COMMUNICATION (CONNECTION); LASER TRANSMITTERS; LASERCOM; OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; ORBIT PERFORMANCE; TEAM MEMBERS;

OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

BIT ERROR RATES; GROUND-TO-ORBIT LASERCOM DEMONSTRATION (GOLD);

EID: 0030653074     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.273703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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