Title :
Portable high-data-rate lasercom system
Author :
Kim, Isaac I. ; Stieger, Ron ; Schuster, John ; Moursund, Carter ; Riley, Brian ; Koontz, Joseph ; Hakakha, Harel ; Barclay, Micah ; Adhikari, Prasanna ; Korevaar, Eric
Author_Institution :
AstroTerra Corp., San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract :
AstroTerra is designing and prototyping quickly deployable, portable laser communication (lasercom) terminals which will be appropriate for military applications including naval ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore and army site-to-site communications. Lasercom is particularly well suited for these applications because of its high bandwidth, very low probability of interception, and its undetectability. In addition, the military is willing to tolerate the occasional weather outages that occur with lasercom in trade for the advantages it offers. Other terrestrial applications for portable lasercom include embassy-to-ambassador inter-building links, emergency links during disaster relief, and telecommunications backbones in situations where fiber installation is time or cost prohibitive
Keywords :
digital communication; marine systems; military communication; military equipment; optical communication equipment; optical links; satellite communication; AstroTerra; STRV-2 satellite lasercom terminal; army site-to-site communications; digital communication link; disaster relief; embassy-to-ambassador inter-building links; emergency links; high bandwidth; low probability of interception; military applications; naval ship-to-ship communications; portable high-data-rate lasercom system; portable laser communication terminals; ship-to-shore communications; telecommunications backbones; terrestrial applications; weather outages; Apertures; Artificial satellites; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Masers; Microwave communication; Military communication; Optical design; Radio frequency; Transceivers;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference, 1998. MILCOM 98. Proceedings., IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4506-1
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.1998.722204
