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WARPSPACE in Industry

Overview Established in 2016, WARPSPACE is a Japanese telecommunication service for artificial satellite and CubeSat module development. Originally a spin-out space startup from the University of ...

Japan
LEO
Optical Communications
Satellite
ATLAS Space Operations in Industry

Overview ATLAS Space Operations, Inc. was founded in 2015 with the mission of providing a better, more affordable global communications network than the traditional legacy approach to satellite ...

Deep Space Network
GEO
Ground Station
LEO
MEO
Optical Communications
Satellite
Space
UltraAir in Industry Applications

Overview Airbus and The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) partnered up to develop a laser communication terminal for aircraft and satellites known as UltraAir. This laser ...

FSO
Laser
Netherlands
Optical Communications
Satellite
Terminal
Xenesis, Inc. in Industry

Overview Xenesis, Inc. is a managed services provider for the telecommunications industry whose backbone optical communications network offers Mobile Network Operators (MNO) and Mobile Virtual Network ...

Empower Space Alliance
Laser
LEO
Optical Communications
Satellite
Space
Terminal
NASA Communications Services Program (CSP) in Government Applications

Overview In recent years, the United States Government has requested NASA to develop a program where it promotes and utilizes commercial technologies for use in near-Earth operations. NASA will ...

LEO
Programs
Satellite
United States
Data Combining Schemes for a Detector Array Receiver in Free-Space Optical Communications in Research & Development

Summary This paper analyzes and compares combining schemes used to fuse the outputs from the elements of detector arrays used in deep space optical communications.  The equal gain combiner (EGC), ...

Dector arrays
ECG
Equal gain combiner
Maximal ration combiner
MRC
SC
Selection combiner
Signal to Noise
SNR
Piezo Tip Tilt Platform for Fast Steering Mirror DTT60SM-SG in Industry Applications

The DTT60SM-SG is a piezo Tip Tilt Platform with 10 mrad peak to peak amplitude (+/- 5 mrad). This steering platform can welcome a large spectrum of mirror diameters up to 2 inches (~50 mm). As an ...

FSO to Satellite Communications Using a Kramers-Kronig Transceiver in the Presence of Atmospheric Turbulence in Research & Development

Summary The subject paper compares the performance of a Kramers–Kronig (KK) transceiver with those of coherent transceiver (both amplitude and phase of the optical signal can be extracted) when used i ...

FSO
KK
Kramers-Kronig
Mdpi
Conformal VLC Receivers with Photodetector Arrays in Industry Applications

Overview At the University of Central Florida (UCF), Pooya Nabavi and Murat Yuksei have designed and prototyped a wide field-of-view (FOV) optical receiver to enable visual light communication (VLC) ...

Adaptive
Optical Communications
UCF
Mie Scattering in Optical Fundamentals

Summary Mie Scattering describes the scattering of an electromagnetic plane wave such as an RF or optical signal by a homogenous sphere, such as a dust particle in the atmosphere. Unlike Rayleigh ...

Fog
Haze
Rayleigh
Scattering