X - NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference
X - NASA Quantum Future Technologies Conference
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<strong>NASA</strong> Experience: Optical<br />
Communications<br />
§� <strong>NASA</strong> missions are generating progressively more<br />
data which must be transmitted back to Earth<br />
reliably, efficiently, and inexpensively<br />
§� Optical communications key to realizing the <strong>NASA</strong><br />
goals of a virtual presence in space and<br />
development of an interplanetary network<br />
§� Payoffs:<br />
-‐ 10 – 100x increase in data transmission rates<br />
-‐ Reduction of the antenna area to 1% of current size<br />
-‐ Reductions of weight, moment and power<br />
§� Optical communications demos:<br />
-‐ High-‐data rate laser pulse transmission<br />
-‐ Space-‐based optical receiver<br />
-‐ Space-‐based optical pointing<br />
§� JPL Optical Communications Group has the<br />
experience, capabilities, and facilities to<br />
support development of a deep-‐space optical<br />
comm demonstration experiments
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