Overview of high rate deep space laser communications options

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5338, Issue , 2004, Pages 37-49

  Boroson, Don M ^a   Bondurant, Roy S ^a   Scozzafava, Joseph J ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEEP SPACE LASER COMMUNICATIONS; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGING; PHOTON-COUNTING DETECTORS;

AMPLIFIERS (ELECTRONIC); FIBER LASERS; HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION; PHOTONS; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT; TELESCOPES; TURBO CODES;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 3543141845     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.543010     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (12)

1. E. Swanson, J. Livas, R. Bondurant, "High Sensitivity Optically Preamplified Direct Detection DPSK Receiver with Active Delay-Line Stabilization," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 263-265, 1994.
2. R. J. Barron, "Low Duty-Cycle Signaling Using Binary Shaping: A Useful Alternative to PPM," SPIE Proceedings, vol 5338: Free-Space Laser Communications Technologies XVI, January 27, 2004.
3. K. A. McIntosh, J. P. Donnelly, E. K. Duerr, B. F. Aull, R. J. Molnar, D. C. Oakley, A. Napoleone, S. D. Calawa, L. J. Mahoney, K. M. Molvar and J. Mahan, "Arrays of III-V Semiconductor Geiger-mode Avalanche Photodiodes," LEOS 2003.
4. F. I. Khatri, D. M. Boroson, D. V. Murphy, and J. Sharma, "Link Analysis of Mars-Earth Optical Communications System," SPIE Proceedings, vol 5338: Free-Space Laser Communications Technologies XVI, January 27, 2004.
5. D. M Boroson, R. S. Bondurant, D. V. Murphy, "LDORA: A Novel Laser Communications Receiver Array Architecture," SPIE Proceedings, vol 5338: Free-Space Laser Communications Technologies XVI, January 27, 2004.
6. K. E. Wilson, "An Overview of the GOLD Experiment Between the ETS-VI Satellite and the Table Mountain Facility," JPL TDA Progress Report 42-124, February 15, 1996, pp 8-19.
7. G. G. Ortiz, A. Portillo, S. Lee, and J. Ceniceros, "Functional Demonstration of Accelerometer-Assisted Beacon Tracking," SPIE Proceedings, vol 4274: Free-Space Laser Communications Technologies XIII, January, 2001.
8. J. P. Gilmore, M.F. Luniewicz, D. G. Sargent, "Enhanced Precision Pointing Jitter Suppression System," SPIE LASE: High-Power Lasers and Applications, San Jose, CA, January 20-25, 2002.
9. C. C. Chen, "Effect of Earth Albedo Variation on the Performance of a Spatial Acquisition Subsystem Aboard a Planetary Spacecraft," JPL TDA Progress Report 42-95, July-Sept 1988, pp 202-211.
10. G. G. Ortiz and S. Lee, "Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing using Earth Thermal Images for Deep Space Optical Communications," LEOS Proceedings, October 27, 2003.
11. D. M Boroson, A Biswas, B. Edwards, "MLCD: Overview of NASA's Mars Laser Communications Demonstration System," SPIE Proceedings, vol 5338: Free-Space Laser Communications Technologies XVI, January 27, 2004.
12. B. Moision and J. Hamkins, "Low Complexity Serially Concatenated Codes for the Deep Space Optical Channel," Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Yokohama, Japan, June 2003.