ESA's bidirectional space-to-ground laser communication experiments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5550, Issue , 2004, Pages 287-298

  Romba, José ^a   Sodnik, Zoran ^a   Reyes, Marcos ^b   Alonso, Angel ^b   Bird, Aneurin ^a  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

ARTEMIS; Laser communication; OGS; OPALE; SILEX

Indexed keywords

DATA TRANSFER; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; IRRADIATION; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RADIATION DAMAGE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SATELLITE LINKS; SOLAR EQUIPMENT;

LASER COMMUNICATION TERMINALS (LCT); OGS; OPALE; OPTICAL GROUND STATIONS (OGS); SILEX; TELECOMMUNICATION SATELLITE - ARTEMIS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 14944342669     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.560934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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