Spatial Acquisition in Optical Space Communications.

Abstract

Early in 1972 Lincoln Laboratory made the decision to discontinue the development effort for an Optical Communications link between LES-8 and LES-9. The opportunity to document our early effort never seemed to come. Now, 5 years later, after the launch of LES-8/9, it seems worthwhile to write down some of our thinking on what turned out to be an intriguing problem. Two of the four collaborators are now distantly located and involved in other pressing problems so that it is not possible to write a paper as complete as we would have liked. Here is a slightly edited version of the acquisition analysis we did. Omitted are the interesting but incomplete results for the case of moderate signal-to- noise ratio.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 06, 1977
Accession Number
ADA046581

Entities

People

  • Alvise A. Braga-illa
  • Estil V. Hoversten
  • Harold M. Heggestad
  • John T. Lynch

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Angle Of Arrival
  • Attitude Control Systems
  • Background Noise
  • Communication Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Dwell Time
  • Images
  • Laser Beams
  • Laser Diodes
  • Lasers
  • Optical Communications
  • Quantum Efficiency
  • Random Variables
  • Space Communications

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Tactical Satellite Communications Systems Engineering.

Technology Areas

  • Space