CubeSat Laser Communications Transceiver for Multi-Gbps Downlink . NASA SCaN SBIR Workshop: Optical Communication 9/13/17 Ref: 31st Annual AIAA/USU 2017 Conference on Small Satellites Paper SSC17-XI-09 13605 Dulles Technology Dr. Herndon, VA 20171 (703) 471-7671 www.fibertek.com
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CubeSat Laser Communications
Transceiver for Multi-Gbps Downlink.
NASA SCaN SBIR Workshop: Optical Communication
9/13/17
Ref: 31st Annual AIAA/USU 2017 Conference on Small Satellites
Paper SSC17-XI-09
13605 Dulles Technology Dr.Herndon, VA 20171(703) 471-7671www.fibertek.com
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Who is Fibertek?
An Optical Instrument Aerospace company
Fibertek has provided >100 systems deployed in UAVs, DoD vehicles and Spacecraft
Aircraft and UAVs Spacecraft and Space Station
Ships and SubmarinesTerrestrial Vehicles Ground
❖ We develop Optical Instruments and subsystems for customer platforms
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Fibertek is a Space Flight Company:
CALIPSO & ICESat-2
❖ NASA /BATC
❖ Cloud and Aerosol Lidar
❖ NASA ESSP 3-year mission
❖ 11+ years of 24/7 365 days/year
since 2006
❖ NASA ICESat-2 Instrument
❖ Supplied Lasers & Photon
Counting Electronics
❖ 2018 Launch
Photon Counting
Electronics
(120 PMT Channels)
Lasers
CubeSat Laser Com
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Motivation
❖ Space Lasercom offers Large Bandwidth, Low SWAP.
❖Technology is maturing – TeSAT, Japan and NASA Demos