Category:Optical Communications

The following pages pertain to SSI's work with Optical Communications:

Optical Communications Team Goals

• Amateur Optical Communication Record
• CubeQuest Challenge

Optical Communications Teams System Iterations

• OpComms System I
• OpComms System II
• OpComms System III

Important Concepts and Technical Issues

• Beam Divergence
• Scintillation
• Precision Aiming
• Fog
• Long Range RF
• Optical Internet Backhaul

Field Test Locations

• W6YX (also see Amateur Radio)
• Skyline Boulevard Overlook
• Proposed Alternate OpComms Test Sites

Existing Optical Communications Satellites

• FitSat-1
• LADEE
• ARTEMIS and SPOT-4
• OICETS
• OPALS
• JPL 1U Optical Communications Terminal

Astronomy

• Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network
• Stanford Astronomy Club
• Stanford Student Observatory

Academic Collaborators

• Dr. Joseph Kahn
• Dr. Leo Hollberg
• Dr. Simone D'Amico

An extraordinarily redundant alphabetical list is presented below, which Sasha didn't know would autogenerate when pages were added to the category