Remotely-interrogated high data rate free space laser communications link
CA 2405274 A1 · Owner: Ruggiero, Anthony J. · Inventors: Ruggiero, Anthony J.
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A system and method of remotely extracting information from a communications station by interrogation with a low power beam. Nonlinear phase conjugation of the low power beam results in a high power encoded return beam that automatically tracks the input beam and is corrected for atmospheric distortion. Intracavity nondegenerate four wave mixing is used in a broad area semiconductor laser in the communications station to produce the return beam.
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- Filed April 6, 2001. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 6, 2021.
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