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Laser Communication with Constellation Satellites, UAVs, HAPs and Balloons

Fundamentals and Systems Analysis for Global Connectivity

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  1. Arun K. Majumdar

    1. San Diego, USA

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  • Proposed a solution to the limitations in global connectivity through a global laser/optical communication system using constellation satellites, UAVs, HAPs and Balloons
  • Provides both fundamentals and the advanced technology development in establishing global communication connectivity using optical technology and communication constellation satellites
  • Includes in-depth coverage of the basics of laser/optical communication constellation satellites

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Basics of Satellite Wireless Communications: Single Satellite and a Constellation of Satellites

    • Arun K. Majumdar
    Pages 1-26

  3. Free-Space Optical Propagation Relevant to Integrated Space/Aerial, Terrestrial, and Underwater Links

    • Arun K. Majumdar
    Pages 27-61

  4. Laser Satellite Communications: Fundamentals, Systems, Technologies, and Applications

    • Arun K. Majumdar
    Pages 63-95

  5. Optical Laser Links in Space-Based Systems for Global Communications Network Architecture: Space/Aerial, Terrestrial, and Underwater Platforms

    • Arun K. Majumdar
    Pages 97-128

  6. Technology Developments, Research Challenges, and Advances for FSO Communication for Space/Aerial/Terrestrial/Underwater (SATU) Links

    • Arun K. Majumdar
    Pages 129-158

  7. Constellation of Satellites: Integrated Space/Aerial/Terrestrial/Underwater (SATU) All-Optical Networks for Global Internet Connectivity

    • Arun K. Majumdar
    Pages 159-197

  8. Laser-Based Satellite and Inter-satellite Communication Systems: Advanced Technologies and Performance Analysis

    • Arun K. Majumdar
    Pages 199-229

  9. Recent Demonstrations of Laser Satellite Communications: Path Forward for Constellation of Laser Satellite Technology for Global Communication

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    Pages 231-251

  10. Summary, Conclusions, and Future Directions

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    Pages 253-261

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 263-270
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About this book

This book presents posits a solution to the current limitations in global connectivity by introducing a global laser/optical communication system using constellation satellites, UAVs, HAPs and Balloons. The author outlines how this will help to satisfy the tremendous increasing demand for data exchange and information between end-users worldwide including in remote locations. The book provides both fundamentals and the advanced technology development in establishing worldwide communication and global connectivity using, (I) All-Optical technology, and (ii) Laser/Optical Communication Constellation Satellites (of different types, sizes and at different orbits), UAVs, HAPs (High Altitude Platforms) and Balloons. The book discusses step-by-step methods to develop a satellite backbone in order to interconnect a number of ground nodes clustered within a few SD-WAN (software-defined networking) in a wide area network (WAN) around the world in order to provide a fully-meshed communication network. This book pertains to anyone in optical communications, telecommunications, and system engineers, as well as technical managers in the aerospace industry and the graduate students, and researchers in academia and research laboratory.

  • Proposed a solution to the limitations in global connectivity through a global laser/optical communication system using constellation satellites, UAVs, HAPs and Balloons;
  • Provides both fundamentals and the advanced technology development in establishing global communication connectivity using optical technology and communication constellation satellites;
  • Includes in-depth coverage of the basics of laser/optical communication constellation satellites.


Authors and Affiliations

  • San Diego, USA

    Arun K. Majumdar

About the author

Professor Arun K. Majumdar is a research scientist and a former university professor. In the past he has worked in optical communications and research industries for over 28 years, was the Director of Research at LCResearch, Inc. in California. He has also held positions at the US Department of the Navy as Senior Scientist, Innosense LLC as Chief Engineer, Harvard and MIT, among others. He served as a full Professor at the University of Colorado for five years, and served as a Visiting Professor at both NIST and at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic. Professor Majumdar has published over 395 articles in international scientific peer-reviewed journals, has written over 25 technical reports. He has published several books including Principles and Applications of Free Space Optical Communications (IET, 2019), Optical Wireless Communications for Broadband Global Internet Connectivity, Fundamentals and Potential Applications (Elsevier, 2018), Advanced Free Space Optics(FSO) (Springer, 2015), and Free-Space Laser Communications Principles and Advances (Springer, 2008). He is a member of IEEE, OSA, and SPIE.

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