Mid-wave and long-wave infrared transmitters and detectors for optical satellite communications—a review

L Flannigan, L Yoell, C Xu - Journal of Optics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
There has been a recent surge in interest for optical satellite communication (SatCom)
utilizing lasers. It is clear to see why, as optical SatCom is capable of higher speed, lighter …

Demonstration of a real-time 14 Tb/s multi-aperture transmit single-aperture receive FSO system with class 1 eye-safe transmit intensity

K Matsuda, M Binkai, S Koshikawa… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
To achieve a link budget capable of supporting high capacity free space optical
communication (FSO), a high transmit power is required. However, the transmitter can …

High power WDM sources for laser communication

M Welch, A Donnot, J Edmunds… - Free-Space Laser …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The next generation high bandwidth optical links from earth to space will requirement the
development of new high power WDM sources. In this paper G&H present the latest results …

Latency-constrained fading mitigation for coherent optical feeder links based on space-time-frequency coding

CW Korevaar, R Saathof… - … on Space Optics …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Optical feeder links (OFLs) benefit from the vast amount of bandwidth available in the THz-
regime of the electromagnetic spectrum, and can be considered as enablers for future terabit …

High-power free-space bulk multiplexer for satellite communication optical ground terminal

F Silvestri, L Feenstra, F Pettazzi… - … on Space Optics …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
High throughput optical satellite communication (SATCOM) systems need to rely on effective
and robust technology to enable wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM) in a commercially …

Terabit Optical Feeder Links for DVB Satellite Systems: Real-time End-to-End Communication System Design & Field Test Results

CW Korevaar, TC Bui, JJ Boschma… - … on Space Optical …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the design and field test results of a real-time communication system for
the transport of DVB signals over optical feeder links (OFLs). The design relies on 1 …

Multi-aperture transmission and DSP techniques for beyond-10 Tb/s FSO networks

K Matsuda, H Sano, Y Takada, M Binkai… - … on Space Optical …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a real-time demonstration of 14 Tb/s transmission in 220 m outdoor FSO
experiments with a 9-aperture transmit and single-aperture receive FSO system. In addition …

End-to-end performance analysis of analog coherent optical satellite feeder links

CW Korevaar, JJ Boschma… - … Conference on Space …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical feeder links (OFLs) benefit from the vast amount of bandwidth available in the THz-
regime of the electro-magnetic spectrum, and could enable future terabit-per-second …