Why commercial broadband satellites absolutely must have laser inter-satellite links (ISLs) and how the free-space laser communications community could let them down

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3266, Issue , 1998, Pages 99-110

  Freidell, James E ^a  

^a Daedalian Technologies Ltd   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband; Commercial; Inter satellite link; Laser communications; Last hurrah; Network operations

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; OPTICAL LINKS; SATELLITE LINKS;

INTER-SATELLITE LINKS (ISL);

BROADBAND NETWORKS;

EID: 0032223906     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.308698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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