Title :
Switchboard in the sky: free-space optics platform for communications and processing
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Central Florida Univ., Orlando, FL, USA
Abstract :
In the late 1990s, companies such as Motorola and Teledesic have unveiled plans to install a network of satellites at various orbit levels around the Earth. These communication satellites will form a global grid of interconnection networks with land, sea, and space terminals. Essentially, all these interconnection networks are to be radio frequency (rf) links. typical system design. Each switchboard on a satellite will have physically independent optical input ports and output ports. It is also conceivable that each port is reversible and acts as both an input and output port. The scanner ports connect the satellite optical switchboard to the switchboards of other satellites in orbit
Keywords :
integrated optoelectronics; optical links; satellite links; wavelength division multiplexing; Motorola; Teledesic; communication satellites; free-space optics platform; interconnection networks; optical communications; optical information processing; optical links; satellite links; satellite optical switchboard; switchboard; Artificial satellites; Communication switching; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber testing; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Optical signal processing; Satellite broadcasting; Stimulated emission; Wavelength division multiplexing;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting, 1998. LEOS '98. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4947-4
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.1998.739535