Airborne optical communications demonstrator design and pre-flight test results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5712, Issue , 2005, Pages 205-216

  Biswas, A ^a   Page, N ^a   Neal, J ^a   Zhu, D ^a   Wright, M ^a   Ortiz, G G ^a   Farr, W H ^a   Hemmati, H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne terminal; Free space; Lasercom; Optical communications

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE TERMINALS; FREE SPACES; LASERCOM; LINE OF SIGHT;

CAMERAS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION; OPTICAL LINKS; SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 21844438695     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.600834     Document Type: Conference Paper

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