Optical link and atmospheric turbulence characterization with JPL's Laser Communication Relay Demonstration Optical Ground Station
NASA’s first end-to-end optical relay system, Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) uses the Optical Ground Station-1 (OGS1) at Table Mountain Facility, Wrightwood, CA, for high-rate optical communication with the flight terminals on a geo-synchronous satellite. The AO system at OGS1 has performed in weak to...