[Ronja] 10mbps 1,500,000km simulated DX

[Mark Robinson]

hi everyone,

This article may be interesting:

> http://www.oerlikon.com/ecomaXL/index.php?site=SPACE_EN_press_releases_detail&udtx_id=5060

Tenerife, 7. November 2007 - On the Canary Islands last week, a team from 
Oerlikon Space demonstrated the feasibility of a laser link across a distance 
of 1.5 million kilometres for the first time ever. In the future, laser links 
like this one will be able to transmit data across huge distances through the 
universe far more rapidly and efficiently than is possible using conventional 
radio links today.

To prove that data transmission across the vast distance of 1.5 million 
kilometres is really feasible, the Oerlikon engineers had devised a special 
experiment in which they set up a laser link between the islands of La Palma 
and Tenerife. The transmission unit was modified in such a way that the 
conditions on the 144-kilometre stretch between the islands exactly reflected 
those that would prevail on a 1.5 million kilometre link through space. This 
was achieved primarily by reducing the emission aperture of the laser to a 
diameter of less than half a millimetre in order to weaken the light signal.

...

see also
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/07/1559251&threshold=-1
-- 
all the best
Mark
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