To remain competitive with fiber telecommunications systems, advanced communications satellites will require increased bandwidth and capability to provide efficient economical services. On-board photonic subsystems could potentially reduce the payload mass and volume and increase processing bandwidth. Technical feasibility of a photonic satellite where optical subsystems replace the microwave and digital electronics on-board communications spacecraft is discussed in this paper.
Optical technology in satellite communications
Photonics for Space Environments ; 1993 ; Orlando,FL,United States
Proc. SPIE ; 1953 ; 216
1993-09-15
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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