POWER EFFICIENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS
dc.contributor.author | Lesh, James R. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-06-13T18:46:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-06-13T18:46:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1982-09 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0884-5123 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0074-9079 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10150/612881 | |
dc.description | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / September 28-30, 1982 / Sheraton Harbor Island Hotel and Convention Center, San Diego, California | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Optical communications technology promises substantial size, weight and power consumption savings for space to space high data rate communications over presently used microwave technology. These benefits are further increased by making the most efficient use of the available optical signal energy. This presentation will describe the progress to date on a project to design, build and demonstrate in the laboratory an optical communication system capable of conveying 2.5 bits of information per effective received photon. Such high power efficiencies will reduce the need for photon collection at the receiver and will greatly reduce the requirements for optical pointing accuracy, both at the transmitter as well as the receiver. A longer range program to demonstrate even higher photon efficiencies will also be described. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | International Foundation for Telemetering | en |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
dc.publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering | en |
dc.relation.url | http://www.telemetry.org/ | en |
dc.rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.title | POWER EFFICIENT OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS FOR SPACE APPLICATIONS | en_US |
dc.type | text | en |
dc.type | Proceedings | en |
dc.contributor.department | Supervisor, Communications Concepts Research Jet Propulsion Laboratory | en |
dc.identifier.journal | International Telemetering Conference Proceedings | en |
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refterms.dateFOA | 2018-09-11T12:45:13Z | |
html.description.abstract | Optical communications technology promises substantial size, weight and power consumption savings for space to space high data rate communications over presently used microwave technology. These benefits are further increased by making the most efficient use of the available optical signal energy. This presentation will describe the progress to date on a project to design, build and demonstrate in the laboratory an optical communication system capable of conveying 2.5 bits of information per effective received photon. Such high power efficiencies will reduce the need for photon collection at the receiver and will greatly reduce the requirements for optical pointing accuracy, both at the transmitter as well as the receiver. A longer range program to demonstrate even higher photon efficiencies will also be described. |