The challenge of tracking unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is arising out of increasing their
market and spread usage in many applications. Miscuing UAVs can lead to potential threats …

Free-space optical communications are poised to alleviate the data-flow bottleneck
experienced by spacecraft as traditional radio frequencies reach their practical limit. While …

Free-space optical (FSO) communication is widely used in satellites, ships, aircraft, and
ground stations due to its advantages of high speed, large capacity, good confidentiality …

Free space optical (FSO) communication can support various unmanned aerial
vehicles'(UAVs) applications that require large capacity data transmission. In order to …

Free-space optical communication is becoming a mature technology that has been
demonstrated in space a number of times in the last few years. The Japanese National …

Laser communications from small satellite platforms empowers the establishment of
quantum key distribution (QKD), relying on quantum superposition states of single photons …

Free-space optical (FSO) systems are compulsory to realize high capacity and interference-
free communication links from low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations as well as …

A laser beam propagating in the free space suffers numerous degradation effects. In the
context of free space optical communications (FSOCs), this results in reduced availability of …

One of the technically challenging issues of free-space optical communication systems is the
mitigation of angle-of-arrival (AoA) fluctuations, mainly arising from the vibration of receiving …

In this article, we introduce our vision for the future non-terrestrial networks beyond 5G and
discuss the possible implementation scenarios for free-space optical communication …