Feasibility of utilizing the 200-inch Hale telescope as a deep-space optical receiver

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5550, Issue , 2004, Pages 326-335

  Roberts, W T ^a   Petrie, H L ^b   Pickles, A J ^b   Thicksten, R P ^b   Echols, C ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SPACE OPTICAL RECEIVERS; GROUND-BASED TELESCOPES; MARS LASER COMMUNICATION DEMONSTRATION (MLCD); MARS TELECOMMUNICATION ORBITERS (MTO);

ASTRONOMY; BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SPACECRAFT;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 14244252591     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.563324     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. D. M. Borosn, A. Biswas, and B. L. Edwards, "MLCD:Overview of NASA's Mars Laser Communications Demonstration System", SPIE Proceedings, vol 5338: Free Space Laser Communication Technologies XVI, pp. 16-23, January 27, 2004.