Space-to-ground optical communication systems can benefit from reducing the size, weight,
and power profiles of space terminals. One way of reducing the required power-aperture …

The next generation free-space optical communications infrastructure will need to support a
wide variety of space-to-ground links. As a result of the limited size, weight, and power on …

This work presents an approach to multiple access for free-space laser communication
(lasercom) called space-time division multiple access, which aggregates traffic from multiple …

The advancement of digital coherent technologies has dramatically increased the system
capacity per single-core single-mode fiber to the point that we can now approach the …

We present an overview of an air-to-ground laser communications demonstration performed
at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Error-free communication at 2.5 Gb/s was demonstrated along a …

We are developing an inter-satellite omnidirectional optical communicator (ISOC) that will
enable cross-link communications between spacecraft at Gbps data rates over distances of …

Free-space laser communication systems have the potential to provide flexible, high-speed
connectivity suitable for long-haul intersatellite and deep-space links. For these applications …

Free-space laser communication systems have the potential to provide flexible, high-speed
connectivity suitable for long-haul intersatellite and deep-space links. For these applications …

The Optical Communications Demonstrator (OCD) is a laboratory based lasercom terminal
that was developed to validate several key technologies such as precision beam pointing …

The ground-to-orbit Lasercom Demonstration conducted between the ETS-VI spacecraft and
the ground station at JPL's Table Mountain Facility, Wrightwood CA was the first ground-to …