Development of a breadboard model of space laser communication terminal for optical feeder links from Geo

National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has a long history of the R&D of space laser communications.

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[2]  Yozo Shoji,et al.  Small optical transponder for small satellites , 2010, 2010 7th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP 2010).