Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Modular coherent photonic-aided payload receiver for communications satellites

  • Vanessa C. Duarte,
  • João G. Prata,
  • Carlos F. Ribeiro,
  • Rogério N. Nogueira,
  • Georg Winzer,
  • Lars Zimmermann,
  • Rob Walker,
  • Stephen Clements,
  • Marta Filipowicz,
  • Marek Napierała,
  • Tomasz Nasiłowski,
  • Jonathan Crabb,
  • Marios Kechagias,
  • Leontios Stampoulidis,
  • Javad Anzalchi,
  • Miguel V. Drummond

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10077-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Satellite communications shall only thrive if being able to compete with fibre in both bandwidth and cost. Here, the authors demonstrate that a coherent and yet modular photonic-aided payload is feasible, paving the way for a new generation of communications satellites with photonics at their core.