Speed Comparison: FSO vs Fiber
Overview Fiber-optic cables must be installed from one point to the next to enable optical communications. The quality of those cables…
Project Loon
Overview Google’s project division X has been developing a balloon technology known as Project Loon to increase connectivity across the globe.…
Cooperative Diversity
Overview Cooperative diversity (CD) is a physical hardware arrangement technique that uses multiple antennas to improve a network’s total channel capacity…
Photon-per-Bit Receiver for Deep Space Communications
Overview A team of researchers from the University of Chambers in Sweden has improved satellite receivers for deep space communications by…
Luminescent Detector
Overview The Connectivity Lab at Facebook has developed a new kind of optical detector for FSO communication. Their Luminescent Detector is…
Deep-Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Overview DSOC, short for Deep Space Optical Communications, is a NASA laser-based space communications program which is still in the development…
Dynamic Routing (Adaptive Routing)
Overview Dynamic routing, also called adaptive routing, is a process for optimizing how data is transmitted. It is comparable to taking…
ETS (Engineering Test Satellite)
Overview Engineering Test Satellite (ETS) is a program name given to certain satellites launched by JAXA (formerly NASDA). The ETS name…
Anomalous refraction of optical spacetime wave packets
Overview Ayman Abouraddy and his team at UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics have developed a new type of laser beam…
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL)
Overview MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MITLL) occupies 75 acres (20 acres of which are MIT property) on the eastern perimeter of Hanscom…