Optical communications development for spacecraft applications

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 306-315

  Boone, Bradley G ^a   Bruzzi, Jonathan R ^b   Kluga, Bernard E ^b   Millard, Wesky P ^b   Fielhauer, Karl B ^b   Duncan, Donald D ^b   Hahn, Daniel V ^b   Drabenstadt, Christian W ^c   Maurer, Donald E ^d   Bokulic, Robert S ^d  

^a IR and D Projects ^*  (United States)

^b APL's Air Defense Systems Department   (United States)

^c Technical Services Department   (Norway)

^d APL Space Department

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS TERMINALS; POINTING SYSTEMS; POWER PENALTIES;

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SPACE RESEARCH;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 26444460872     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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