AOptix demonstrates free-space optics laser communications for airborne HD video

摘要

Scientists from the U.S. Air Force demonstrated high-bandwidth, real-time, free-space laser communications air-to-ground datalink from aircraft flying more than 60 miles apart using laser communications technology from AOptix Technologies Inc. in Campbell, Calif.rnThe demonstration was part of a two-phase flight test of the Enhanced Air-to-Ground Lasercom System (EAGLS) program of the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., which a low-power, eye-safe laser, single bidirectional air-to-ground, free-space optics link to transmit livernsimultaneous uncompressed high-definition (HD) video from two different airplane cameras at 2.5 gigabits per second.