Principles of Adaptive Optics describes the foundations, principles, and applications of adaptive optics (AO) and its enabling technologies. This leading textbook addresses the …
D Guilhot, P Ribes-Pleguezuelo - Instruments, 2019 - mdpi.com
The registered history of laser technologies for space application starts with the first laser echoes reflected off the Moon in 1962. Since then, photonic technologies have become very …
DM Cornwell - 2017 IEEE international conference on space …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Program at NASA Headquarters is pursuing a vibrant and wide-ranging optical communications program for future near-Earth …
Atmospheric clearness is a key issue for free space optical communications (FSO). We present an active method to achieve FSO through clouds and fog, using ultrashort high …
DM Boroson, BS Robinson, DV Murphy… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
Challenges of direct-to-Earth (DTE) laser communications (lasercom) between spacecraft in low-Earth orbit (LEO) or medium-Earth orbit (MEO) and ground terminals can include short …
Communication bottlenecks, particularly in the downlink direction, are a common problem for many CubeSat developers. As described herein, a CubeSat module for a CubeSat …
E Clements, R Aniceto, D Barnes, D Caplan… - Optical …, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The nanosatellite optical downlink experiment (NODE) implements a free-space optical communications (lasercom) capability on a CubeSat platform that can support low earth orbit …
The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration is NASA's multi-year demonstration of laser communication from the Earth to a geosynchronous satellite. The mission currently has …