OPTEL family of optical terminals for space based and airborne platform communications links

Guy Baister; Thomas Dreischer; Edgar Fischer

doi:10.1117/12.630385

26 October 2005 OPTEL family of optical terminals for space based and airborne platform communications links

Guy Baister, Thomas Dreischer, Edgar Fischer

Proceedings Volume 5986, Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks II; 59860Z (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.630385
Event: European Symposium on Optics and Photonics for Defence and Security, 2005, Bruges, Belgium

Abstract

Contraves Space AG is currently developing the OPTEL family of optical terminals for free-space optical communications. The optical terminals within the OPTEL family have been designed so as to be able to position Contraves Space for future opportunities open to this technology. These opportunities range from commercial optical satellite crosslinks between geostationary (GEO) satellites, deep space optical links between planetary probes and the Earth, as well as optical links between airborne platforms (either between the airborne platforms or between a platform and GEO satellite). This paper will present an overview of the space based and airborne system architectures that the Contraves Space family of OPTEL terminals have been designed to support, provide a description and performance summary of each OPTEL terminal and the key technologies that have been developed.

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Guy Baister, Thomas Dreischer, and Edgar Fischer "OPTEL family of optical terminals for space based and airborne platform communications links", Proc. SPIE 5986, Unmanned/Unattended Sensors and Sensor Networks II, 59860Z (26 October 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.630385

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