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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2000
Robert T. Carlson, Downington, PA (US);
Jesse W. Booker, Schwenksville, PA (US);
Alvin Cabato, Plymouth Meeting, PA (US);
David Driscoll, West Chester, PA (US);
Robert T. Carlson, Downington, PA (US);
Jesse W. Booker, Schwenksville, PA (US);
Alvin Cabato, Plymouth Meeting, PA (US);
David Driscoll, West Chester, PA (US);
LSA, Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Abstract
A wireless atmospheric site-to-site full-duplex (i.e., simultaneous transmit and receive) laser communication system, typically for wideband (high-speed) data, voice, and/or video transmission. The system includes at least one laser communication transceiver each having an electro-optical transmitter that includes a laser source for generating laser light to be transmitted site-to-site and at high speed, an electro-optical receiver that includes a baffle assembly for receiving light directly onto a detector, without an intermediate field stop and re-imaging relay optics to reject off-axis light sources. Wideband data are transmitted and received through the atmosphere by the electro-optical transmitter and the electro-optical receiver. The data to be transmitted through each laser communication transceiver is inputted through a fiber-optic receiver and outputted by a fiber-optic transmitter. Outgoing laser light is generated by the laser source after it is triggered by an inputted signal from the fiber-optic receiver.