Air-to-ground lasercom system demonstration

Author

Walther, Frederick G ; Nowak, G.A. ; Michael, Steven ; Parenti, Ronald ; Roth, Jeffrey ; Taylor, John ; Wilcox, William ; Murphy, Robert ; Greco, Joseph ; Peters, John ; Williams, Timothy ; Henion, Scott ; Magliocco, Richard ; Miller, Tom ; Volpicelli, Al

Author_Institution

Lincoln Lab. Lexington, Massachusetts Inst. of Technol., Lexington, MA, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

Oct. 31 2010-Nov. 3 2010

Firstpage

1594

Lastpage

1600

Abstract

This article presents an overview of the air to ground lasercom demonstration performed under the Free-Space Optical Communications Airborne Link (FOCAL) program. Techniques used to mitigate fading, demonstrated in 2008 and reported earlier, are reviewed as are the basic equipment approach, also reported earlier. We overview the new results for tracking, fiber coupling, channel measurements and communications performance for the air-to-ground link.

Keywords

fading channels; military communication; optical fibre communication; optical fibre couplers; optical links; FOCAL program; air-to-ground lasercom system; channel measurements; communication performance; fading mitigation; fiber coupling; free-space optical communications airborne link; tracking; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE, 2010 - MILCOM 2010

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

ISSN

2155-7578

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8178-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2010.5680177

Filename

5680177