Tripartite systems: wireless radio frequency, free lasers, and wired terrestrial systems integration

Bradley S. Tice

doi:10.1117/12.384301

2 May 2000 Tripartite systems: wireless radio frequency, free lasers, and wired terrestrial systems integration

Bradley S. Tice

Proceedings Volume 3932, Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies XII; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.384301
Event: Symposium on High-Power Lasers and Applications, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Because of the use of radio frequency, free space lasers and wired terrestrial communication systems are often separate, and at times conflicting systems, a proposed unifying system of all three modes of receiving and transmitting will be addressed under the collective title of Tripartite Systems. Because of the vast network of wired terrestrial communication systems in the Western world communications systems of the future will still use wired systems as the backbone of signal transmission for most data. Such a network does have limits, i.e. the need to replace existing copper wire with fiber optics, but with the advent of free space lasers, lasecom systems, that have bit-error rates at acceptable levels for commercial and military applications, along with radio frequency systems, will give wired systems a `complimentary' competition that will improve the overall efficiency of modern communication systems.

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Bradley S. Tice "Tripartite systems: wireless radio frequency, free lasers, and wired terrestrial systems integration", Proc. SPIE 3932, Free-Space Laser Communication Technologies XII, (2 May 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.384301

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