Update on the German and Australasian Optical Ground Station Networks

NJ Rattenbury, J Ashby, F Bennet, M Birch… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Networks of ground stations designed to transmit and receive at optical wavelengths through
the atmosphere offer an opportunity to provide on-demand, high-bandwidth, secure …

The european optical nucleus network

M Krynitz, C Heese, MT Knopp, KJ Schulz, H Henniger - 2021 - elib.dlr.de
As terrestrial data transmission capacity has been growing quickly, spacecraft to Earth data-
rates also need to increase to enable new applications. While K-band (26 GHz) payload …

Unmodified portable telescope for space-to-ground optical links

GM Pettersson, J Perdigues… - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
By providing high bandwidth with low power and size, optical communications have
received intense interest in space applications. Inter-satellite links are now in everyday …

Optical Ground Station for Free-Space Optical Communication Research and Experimentation

RT Schwarz, MT Knopp, H Le Son… - … Networks; 24th ITG …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Free-space optical (FSO) communication based on laser technology is a promising
opportunity for the nextgeneration ultra-high data rate links from satellites to ground and vice …

The small optical ground stations focal-optics assembly (sofa)

MT Knopp, A Immerz, D Giggenbach… - IAC 2022 congress …, 2022 - elib.dlr.de
Due to an ever-increasing demand for bandwidth and capacity, the microwave spectrum has
become a highly limited resource in satellite communications. Therefore, free-space optical …

Analysis of large optical ground stations for deep-space optical communications

MR Garcia-Talavera, C Rivera, G Murga… - … on Space Optics …, 2017 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Inter-satellite and ground to satellite optical communications have been successfully
demonstrated over more than a decade with several experiments, the most recent being …

An update on the CCSDS optical communications working group interoperability standards

BL Edwards, R Daddato, KJ Schulz… - … on Space Optical …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
International space agencies around the world are working together in the Interagency
Operation Advisory Group (IOAG) and the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems …

Optical networks for earth-space communications and their performance

KS Shaik, D Wonica… - Free-Space Laser …, 1994 - spiedigitallibrary.org
This article describes optical subnets of ground based receiving stations for earth-space
optical communications. The optical subnet concepts presented here provide full line-of …

High altitude clouds impacts on the design of optical feeder link and optical ground station network for future broadband satellite services

S Poulenard, M Ruellan, B Roy, J Riédi… - Free-space laser …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical links at 1.55 μm are envisaged to cope with the increasing capacity demand from
geostationary telecom satellite operators without the need of Radio Frequency (RF) …

HydRON: internet backbone beyond the cloud (s)

C Vasko, J Perdigues, G Acar… - Free-Space Laser …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The ambition of the High thRoughput Optical Network (HydRON) project of European Space
Agency (ESA) is to seamlessly extend terrestrial high-capacity networks into space. The …