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Free-space optical links for space communication networks
Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Ramon Mata-Calvo
Future spacecraft will require a paradigm shift in the way the information is transmitted due to the continuous increase in the amount of data requiring space links. Current radiof…
Optical communication on CubeSats - Enabling the next era in space science
Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Abhijit Biswas, Renny Fields +4
CubeSats are excellent platforms to rapidly perform simple space experiments. Several hundreds of CubeSats have already been successfully launched in the past few years and the num…
Design of an optical-communication link with Mars
Alberto Carrasco-Casado
The possibility of using optical communications in free-space as an improvement of current RF communication systems was analyzed in this Project. The particular case of a link Mars…
Ground-based gamma-ray telescopes as ground stations in deep-space lasercom
Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Jose Manuel Sanchez-Pena, Ricardo Vergaz
As the amount of information to be transmitted from deep-space rapidly increases, the radiofrequency technology has become a bottleneck in space communications. RF is already limit…
CTA telescopes as deep-space lasercom ground receivers
Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Jose Manuel Sanchez-Pena, Ricardo Vergaz
The amount of scientific data to be transmitted from deep-space probes is very limited due to RF-communications constraints. Free-space optical communication can alleviate this bot…
Low-Impact Air-to-Ground Free-Space Optical Communication System Design and First Results
Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Eva Oton, Ricardo Vergaz +3
An air-to-ground free-space optical communication system has been designed and partially developed. The design covers both the communications between the airborne and the ground st…
Design and early development of a UAV terminal and a ground station for laser communications
Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Ricardo Vergaz, Jose M. Sanchez-Pena
A free-space laser communication system has been designed and partially developed as an alternative to standard RF links from UAV to ground stations. This project belongs to the SI…
Contributions to free-space optical communications: feasibility of utilizing Cherenkov telescopes as receivers and beam-wander correction in quantum communications
Alberto Carrasco-Casado
This thesis focuses on the two main applications where free-space optical communication (FSOC) can bring the most significant impact: interplanetary communications and quantum comm…
Feasibility of utilizing Cherenkov Telescope Array gamma-ray telescopes as free-space optical communication ground stations
Alberto Carrasco-Casado, Mariafernanda Vilera, Ricardo Vergaz +1
The signals that will be received on Earth from deep-space probes in future implementations of free-space optical communication will be extremely weak, and new ground stations will…