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6 August 1993Link budget model and applications for laser communications through the atmosphere
Estela Fernandez,1 Pedro Menendez-Valdes,2 Manfred E. Wittig,3 Adolfo Comeron4
1Computadoras, Redes e Ingenieria, S.A. (Spain) 2Univ. Politecnica de Madrid (Spain) 3European Space Agency/ESTEC (Netherlands) 4Univ. Politecnica de Cataluna (Spain)
One of the activities being undertaken in the Free-Space Optical Communications Program of the European Space Agency, is a detailed description of the Link Budget for Laser Communications through the atmosphere. A link budget model definition, for a system using a tracking system with a given probability of failure shall be presented here, as well as an application to a ground station to/from the geostationary ARTEMIS satellite optical link.
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Estela Fernandez, Pedro Menendez-Valdes, Manfred E. Wittig, Adolfo Comeron, "Link budget model and applications for laser communications through the atmosphere," Proc. SPIE 1866, Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies V, (6 August 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.149234