Overview FSO communication is not always stationary. Think of an on-the-ground ground-to-space communication station, such as the ones at Goddard. What if optical communication was needed somewhere ...

Overview The Field Of View (FOV) is the actual observable area of an optical system like the human eye or a camera. This area is often expressed as the maximum angular size of an optical system as ...

Overview Cailabs is a photonics company based in Rennes, France, that focuses on designing and implementing light shaping technologies. Cailabs' products and solutions include LiDAR improvement, ...

Overview Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a remote sensing and measuring technique that uses a laser to measure the distance to a target and observes the reflected light. Different surfaces will ...

Overview Below is a list of acronyms commonly used in free-space optics. ACM Atmospheric Channel Monitoring AFTS Airborne Flight Test System AIT Australian Institute of Technology AO Adaptive Optics ...

Galileo Satellite Constellation: Overview Galileo is a Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite constellation consisting of 24 operational satellites, with an additional 6 in reserve. Positioned ...

Overview The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a MEO satellite constellation approximately 20,000 km above the surface of the Earth. The US government originally developed GPS for military purposes ...

Overview HydRON is a proposed satellite communications program managed by the ESA with the purpose of enabling terabit/s inter-satellite laser communication links. The program proposes to show that ...

Overview Airbus is a multinational European aerospace corporation founded in 1970 and headquartered in France. The company is the primary airline manufacturer of the world and has developed systems ...

Overview Recently, Lincoln Laboratory has achieved a speed of 100Gbps between a CubeSat manufactured by Terran Orbital in low earth orbit carrying the TBIRD payload to a ground station on Table ...