Abstract
Increased data transfer demands, limited RF spectral allocations, and emphasis on smaller spacecraft platforms to keep launch costs down are forcing space mission planners to consider free-space optical communications for their space-ground and intersatellite communications links.
© 1999 Optical Society of America
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