APL / The star / Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory / Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor / / /
Facility
System Design The RF communication system / Earth terminal / National Institute of Standards and Technology / NASA Institute / RF communication system / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / /
IndustryTerm
threshold carrier tracking loop bandwidth / deployed laser communications systems / charge-coupled devices / uplink carrier signal / unmodulated carrier / optical communications system / transceiver systems / appropriate processing / communications system / energy storage / carrier power / optical communications system concept / microwave communications system conceptual design / plane post-processor / communications systems / optical communications / hybrid optical/microwave communications system / electronics / burst communications / optical systems / integrated electronics module16 / charge storage device / power high-efficiency laser transmitter technology / signal processor / electronics architecture / deep space systems / stores energy / /
NaturalFeature
Shannon / /
Organization
National Institute of Standards and Technology / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / African Union / AU mission / NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts / /
Person
R.L. McNutt / Jr. / Laurel / / /
Position
Major / General / /
Product
Laser / /
ProvinceOrState
Maryland / Massachusetts / /
Technology
radiation / laser / MEMS / S/N / lasers / high-power high-efficiency laser transmitter technology / Deep Space Network / microwave / data processor / plane post-processor / signal processor / /
Optical and microwave communications system conceptual design for a realistic interstellar explorer