Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 53, Issue 7, 20240247(2024)

Development current status and trends analysis of deep space laser communication (cover paper·invited)

Duorui GAO1...2,3, Mingyang SUN1,2,3, Mingze HE1,2,3, Shuaiwei JIA1,2,3, Zhuang XIE1,2,3, Bin YAO1,2,3, and Wei WANG12,* |Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1State Key Laboratory of Transient Optics and Photonics, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China
  • 2Laboratory of Photonics and Network, Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an 710119, China
  • 3University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    Received: Jun. 4, 2024

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    Published Online: Aug. 9, 2024

    The Author Email: WANG Wei (wangwei2012@opt.ac.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20240247

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