NASA NTRS · 20150007771
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Biswas, Abhijit, Elliott, John O., Strange, Nathan, Hennati, Hamid, Marshalek, Robert. 2013-02-06. Optical Communication Node in Space. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20150007771
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Deep space optical communications is a significantly more challenging operational domain than near Earth space optical communications, primarily due to effects resulting from the vastly increased range between transmitter and receiver. The NASA Game Changing Development Program Deep Space Optical Communications Project is developing four key technologies for the implementation of a high efficiency telecommunications system that will enable greater than 10X the data rate of a state-of-the-art deep space RF system (Ka-band) for similar transceiver mass and power burden on the spacecraft. These technologies are a low mass spacecraft disturbance isolation assembly, a flight qualified photon counting detector array, a high efficiency flight laser amplifier and a high efficiency photon counting detector array for the ground-based receiver.