L-3 Communications Corporation

Christopher Ryan Collins

Timothy Clyde Collins

Thomas Karl Berger

Nathan Verner Whittenton

Tristan Dennis Jones

Gregory Joseph Pietrangelo

Jaclyn Marie Nascimento

Brian Edward Roberds

Jayant Kumar Gupta

Michael John Talmadge

This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus of establishing a free-space communication link through a medium. The medium can be an occluded environment with increased absorption and/or scattering effects. The free-space communication link includes a transmitter configured to transmit an optical signal at a wavelength suitable for transmission through the medium without suffering excessive optical losses due to absorption and/or scattering effects. The free-space communication link includes a receiver configured to receive the transmitted optical signal. The transmitter-receiver pair is configured to efficiently transmit optical signals at the suitable wavelength over a distance between about 1 mm and about 50 m. The transmitter and the receiver can be configured as portions of a fiber-optic connector assembly that can be used to connect two fiber-optic cables in an occluded environment.

Free space fiber-optic connector

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Carlsbad, CA, United States of America

Christopher Ryan Collins