Satellite communications in the new space era: A survey and future challenges

O Kodheli, E Lagunas, N Maturo… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite communications (SatComs) have recently entered a period of renewed interest
motivated by technological advances and nurtured through private investment and ventures …

Tbit/s line-rate satellite feeder links enabled by coherent modulation and full-adaptive optics

Y Horst, BI Bitachon, L Kulmer, J Brun… - Light: Science & …, 2023 - nature.com
Free-space optical (FSO) communication technologies constitute a solution to cope with the
bandwidth demand of future satellite-ground networks. They may overcome the RF …

Performance of multibeam very high throughput satellite systems based on FSO feeder links with HPA nonlinearity

E Zedini, A Kammoun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to recent advances in laser satellite communications technology, free-space optical
(FSO) links are presented as an ideal alternative to the conventional radio frequency (RF) …

Space optical links for communication networks

A Carrasco-Casado, R Mata-Calvo - Springer Handbook of Optical …, 2020 - Springer
Future spacecraft will require a paradigm shift in the way information is transmitted, in light of
the continuous increase in the amount of data requiring space links. Current radio-frequency …

Free-space optical links for space communication networks

A Carrasco-Casado, R Mata-Calvo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13166, 2020 - arxiv.org
Future spacecraft will require a paradigm shift in the way the information is transmitted due
to the continuous increase in the amount of data requiring space links. Current …

A high-throughput satellite system for serving whole europe with fast internet service, employing optical feeder links

D Giggenbach, E Lutz, J Poliak… - … in Germany. 9th ITG …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Geostationary communication satellites can effectively cover gaps in internet-connectivity of
European households that cannot be reached by terrestrial technology. However, these …

Optical feeder links for high throughput satellites

B Roy, S Poulenard, S Dimitrov… - … on Space Optical …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical feeders for geostationary High Throughput Satellites (HTS) systems based on 1.55
μm wavelength technology are expected to enable to transmit up to several terabits over one …

Achievable capacity of geostationary-ground optical links

R Boddeda, DR Arrieta, S Almonacil… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We estimate the capacity of optical links at telecom wavelengths built upon existing
terrestrial technologies. We study the impact of molecular absorption while varying the …

Coherent receiver design based on digital signal processing in optical high-speed intersatellite links with -phase-shift keying

S Schaefer, M Gregory, W Rosenkranz - Optical Engineering, 2016 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present simulative and experimental investigations of different coherent receiver designs
for high-speed optical intersatellite links. We focus on frequency offset (FO) compensation in …

[PDF][PDF] Optical feeder links for very high throughput satellites-system perspectives

R Mata Calvo, D Giggenbach, A Le Pera, J Poliak… - 2015 - elib.dlr.de
Since some years, an important momentum is observed in optical communication
techniques development for space applications, where free-space laser links may replace …