Title :
Building and Evaluating COTS Based Optical Interlinks for Nanosatellites
Author :
Tarek Idriss;Magdy Bayoumi
Author_Institution :
Center of Adv. Comput. Studies, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA
Abstract :
Nanosatellites in low earth orbit are becoming more popular due their proven performance using accessible COTS components. Optical interlinks for such satellites have been suggested before as an alternative to RF links. In this paper we present the steps involved in selecting suitable COTS components for such links and evaluating them as well. Finally we compare the achievable performance of these links to what current low power RF technologies offer.
Keywords :
"Light emitting diodes","Satellites","Optical fiber communication","Noise","Radio frequency","Satellite broadcasting","Photodetectors"
Conference_Titel :
Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), 2015 24th International Conference on
DOI :
10.1109/ICCCN.2015.7288381
