Compact laser transceiver for mobile terminals

Author

Arimoto, Yoshinori

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Inf. & Commun. Technol., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2005

fDate

25-27 July 2005

Firstpage

31

Lastpage

32

Abstract

The possibility to provide a high-speed laser communication to the mobile terminals on aircrafts, ships, trains and cars is studied and small and light-weight laser terminal is developed for a high-altitude stratospheric platform test flight. The laser terminal onboard is consist of an optical antenna, two-axes gimbals and optical receiver and is capable of analogue signal transmission compatible to digital TV signal at UHF band. A preliminary result of the test flight up to a 4-km altitude is also reported.

Keywords

optical communication equipment; telecommunication terminals; transceivers; UHF band; aircrafts; cars; compact laser transceiver; digital TV signal; gimbals; high-altitude stratospheric platform test flight; high-speed laser communication; laser terminal onboard; light-weight laser terminal; mobile terminals; optical antenna; optical receiver; ships; trains; Aircraft; High speed optical techniques; Marine vehicles; Mobile communication; Optical receivers; Receiving antennas; Testing; Transceivers; Transmitting antennas; UHF antennas;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, 2005 Digest of the

ISSN

1099-4742

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8981-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOSST.2005.1527978

Filename

1527978