The ALFA Zone of Avoidance Survey (2008)
Henning, P. A., Springob, C. M., Day, F., Minchin, R., Momjian, E., Catinella, B., ...
The Lasercom Test and Evaluation Station for Flight Terminal Evaluation (2004)
Wilson, K. E., Page, N., Biswas, A., Hemmati, H., Masters, K., Erickson, D., ...
Recent successful demonstrations of laser communications with spacecraft and Earth-orbiting satellites have demonstrated the feasibility of some of the key aspects of this technology.
We have achieved 150 mW of cw output at 4.3 micrometers, using difference frequency mixing in a singly resonant optical parametric oscillator (OPO). We pumped the OPO cavity, which contains...