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.


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    Title :

    Optical technology in satellite communications


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Photonics for Space Environments ; 1993 ; Orlando,FL,United States


    Published in:

    Proc. SPIE ; 1953 ; 216


    Publication date :

    1993-09-15





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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