opticalcomunicaions — 020623-N-5329L-007 At sea aboard USS Dextrous (MCM-13) Jun. 23, 2002 -- Signalman 2nd Class Eric Palmer signals the U.S. Navy mine hunter coastal ship USS Raven (MHC 61) from the signal bridge aboard the mine countermeasures ship. The mine hunter coastal ship USS Raven (MHC 61), and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit Six, Detachment Twelve (EODMU-6) joined Dextrous in a mine countermeasures exercises in the Arabian Gulf region, while deployed in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Southern Watch. U.S. Navy photo by PhotographerÕs Mate 2nd Class Eric Lippmann (RELEASED)

Military developing Free Space Optical(FSO) or Laser communications for ultrafast secure communications that are harder to detect and disrupt

Rajesh Uppal
August 16, 2020
Comm. & Networking, Defence & Military Systems, Photonics

Free Space Optical or Laser communications is creating a new communications revolution, that by using visible and infrared light instead of radio waves for data transmission is providing large bandwidth, high data rate, license free spectrum, easy and quick deployability, low mass and less power requirement. It also offers low cost transmission as against radio…

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