Design and breadboarding of a phased telescope array for free-space laser communications
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| The design of a 16-aperture receive telescope array demonstrator for optical space communications is presented. Preliminary experimental results and computer simulations show that a telescope array with such dimensions and performance could be used as a receive terminal in a coherent optical interorbit link.
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