Analysis of the preliminary optical links between ARTEMIS and the optical ground station

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4821, Issue , 2002, Pages 33-43

  Reyes, Marcos ^a   Chueca, Sergio ^a   Alonso, Angel ^a   Viera, Teodora ^a   Sodnik, Zoran ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Free space laser communications; Optical ground station; Optical payload; Uplink

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION SATELLITES; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SATELLITE LINKS; TRACKING (POSITION);

FREE SPACE LASER COMMUNICATIONS; LASER COMMUNICATION TERMINALS; OPTICAL GROUND STATION; OPTICAL PAYLOAD;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 0036991498     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.450638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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