TY - JOUR
T1 - Deep-space optical communications
T2 - Future perspectives and applications
AU - Hemmati, Hamid
AU - Biswas, Abhijit
AU - Djordjevic, Ivan B.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received October 21, 2010; revised April 27, 2011; accepted June 18, 2011. Date of publication August 15, 2011; date of current version October 19, 2011. The research described in this paper was carried out at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under a Contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was also supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants CCF-0952711 and ECCS-0725405. H. Hemmati and A. Biswas are with the Optical Communications Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]). I. B. Djordjevic is with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA (e-mail: [email protected]).
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - The concept of deep-space optical communications was formulated shortly after the invention of lasers. The promise of laser communications, high data rate delivery with significantly reduced aperture size for the flight terminal, led to the pursuit of several successful experiments from Earth orbit and provided the incentive for further demonstrations to extend the range to deep space. This paper is aimed at presenting an overview of the current status of optical communications with an emphasis on deep space. Future perspectives and applications of optical communications related to near-Earth and interplanetary communications are also addressed.
AB - The concept of deep-space optical communications was formulated shortly after the invention of lasers. The promise of laser communications, high data rate delivery with significantly reduced aperture size for the flight terminal, led to the pursuit of several successful experiments from Earth orbit and provided the incentive for further demonstrations to extend the range to deep space. This paper is aimed at presenting an overview of the current status of optical communications with an emphasis on deep space. Future perspectives and applications of optical communications related to near-Earth and interplanetary communications are also addressed.
KW - Deep-space optical communications
KW - laser communications
KW - lasers
KW - photon-counting detectors
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U2 - 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2160609
DO - 10.1109/JPROC.2011.2160609
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80054991424
SN - 0018-9219
VL - 99
SP - 2020
EP - 2039
JO - Proceedings of the IEEE
JF - Proceedings of the IEEE
IS - 11
M1 - 5985459
ER -