The deployment of laser communications (lasercom) in space depends upon the availability of key technologies that can
support these challenging missions. The development of these technologies is important in broadening the addressable
applications that lasercom can support. In addition to surviving long-term missions in a hostile environment, a premium
is placed upon new techniques and devices that can reduce the on-board size, weight, and DC power consumption by the
lasercom payload, while maintaining high reliability. Specific requirements for these next-generation systems are discussed
here, with examples of emerging technologies that appear to be insertion candidates.
Conference Committee Involvement (1)
Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies XXII
27 January 2010 | San Francisco, California, United States
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