Tracking and pointing characteristics of OICETS optical terminal in communication demonstrations with ground stations

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6457, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Takayama, Yoshihisa ^a   Jono, Takashi ^a   Toyoshima, Mono ^b   Kunimori, Hiroo ^b   Giggenbach, Dirk ^c   Perlot, Nicolas ^c   Knapek, Markus ^c   Shiratama, Koichi ^d   Abe, Junya ^e   Arai, Katsuvoshi ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

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

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e Space Engineering Development Co Ltd ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Free space laser communications; KIODO; KIRARI; KODEN; LUCE; OICETS

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BASE STATIONS; OPTICAL LINKS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SATELLITES; TRACKING (POSITION);

LASER UTILIZING COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT (LUCE); OPTICAL INTER-ORBIT COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING TEST SATELLITE (OICETS);

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34247356539     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.708417     Document Type: Conference Paper

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