Overview of the inter-orbit and orbit-to-ground laser communication demonstration by OICETS

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6457, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Jono, Takashi ^a   Takayama, Yoshihisa ^a   Shiratama, Koichi ^b   Mase, Ichiro ^b   Demelenne, Benoit ^c   Sodnik, Zoran ^d   Bird, Aneurin ^d   Toyoshima, Morio ^e   Kunimori, Hiroo ^e   Giggenbach, Dirk ^f   Perlot, Nicolas ^f   Knapek, Markus ^f   Arai, Katsuyoshi ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c ESA   (Belgium)

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

ARTEMIS; Free space laser communication; KIRARI; OICETS

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; LASER APPLICATIONS;

FREE-SPACE LASER COMMUNICATION; NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION, AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (NICT);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34247329427     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708864     Document Type: Conference Paper

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