Design for a 5-Watt PPM transmitter for the Mars Laser Communications Demonstration

LEOS Summer Topical Meeting

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 51-52

  Spellmeyer, Neal W ^a   Caplan, David O ^a   Stevens, Mark L ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARS LASER COMMUNICATIONS; PPM COMMUNICATION SYSTEM; TRANSMITTER SUBSYSTEMS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL ENGINEERING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 33748306172     PISSN: 10994742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/LEOSST.2005.1527988     Document Type: Conference Paper

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