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Fiber Pigtailed Lasers for Intra-Satellite Communication

Overview Present and future satellite missions carry increasing number of equipment and systems that collect information in various forms about activities on earth, surrounding atmosphere, and space. This type of missions place new challenges for data analysis and transfer capabilities on-board and eventually between satellites and ground stations. Limited data transmission capacity of current satellite-to-ground links further increases demand for more efficient data manipulation and transmission between various sub-systems on-board. This work summarizes performance and space qualification aspects of fiber pigtailed communication lasers intended for intra-satellite communication links as a part of MIRAS (Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis) Optical Harness (MOHA) on ESA SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission.

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Publisher
Modulight
File Format
PDF
Date Published
Oct 22, 2008
Format
White Papers
Topics
Satellite Communications, Fibre, Optical Networking