Atmospheric Interference
[read more and participate on our wiki article here: https://wiki.pathfinderdigital.com/wiki/atmospheric-interference/ ] Overview Atmosphere is the transmission medium for an FSO link. Like…
Adaptive Modulation
Overview Adaptive modulation is a technique used to modify the modulation of a signal based on the characteristics of the channel…
Mobile FSO Platforms
Free Space Optics (FSO) communication is not always stationary. Think of an on-the-ground ground-to-space communication station, such as the ones at…
Advantages of FSO
Overview Free-space optical (FSO) communication systems are a non-fiber-optic based optical communication systems that aim to handle large amounts of data…
Further Industry Development and Testing Required for Free Space Optics
Although OGS (Optical Ground Station) terminals build on the design framework of FSO (Free Space Optics) networks, there are a significant…
Using Site Diversity to Minimize Weather Disturbances
A solution widely adopted to minimize adverse environmental (weather) effects is site diversity which involves deploying OGS (Optical Ground Links) in…
Quality of Service Control
In order to optimize performance, Quality of Service control protocols must be decided upon and implemented to measure data rate, latency,…
Developing and Testing Mitigation Strategies
Environmental conditions create significant obstructions to completing Satellite to Ground Links (SGL) with OGS (Optical Ground Links). Multiple potential approaches exist…
Potential Applications Through Free Space Optics
FSO (Free Space Optics) has multiple potential applications in both commercial and government networks. The need for increasingly higher bandwidth and…
The Challenges Facing Free Space Optics
In addition to determining the correct design parameters to meet the specifications necessary to achieve the desired communications performance and be…