Multiple Simultaneous Optical Links for Space-Based Platforms

Space-based Free Space Optical Communications (FSOC), or lasercom, offers key advantages over Radio Frequency (RF) communications in bandwidth, Size, Weight, and Power savings, and unregulated spectrum. Theoretical and demonstrated lasercom systems have shown higher data rates for similar or equal S...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aguilar, Alexa C.
Other Authors: Cahoy, Kerri L.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/145093