Laser Communication and Propagation Through the Atmosphere and Oceans IV

Laser Communication and Propagation Through the Atmosphere and Oceans IV
Author: Alexander M.J. van Eijk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre: Atmospheric turbulence
ISBN: 9781628417807

Proceedings of SPIE present the original research papers presented at SPIE conferences and other high-quality conferences in the broad-ranging fields of optics and photonics. These books provide prompt access to the latest innovations in research and technology in their respective fields. Proceedings of SPIE are among the most cited references in patent literature.

Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition

Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition
Author: Xiao Bai
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2018-08-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319977857

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Joint IAPR International Workshop on Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, S+SSPR 2018, held in Beijing, China, in August 2018. The 49 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: classification and clustering; deep learning and neurla networks; dissimilarity representations and Gaussian processes; semi and fully supervised learning methods; spatio-temporal pattern recognition and shape analysis; structural matching; multimedia analysis and understanding; and graph-theoretic methods.

Laser Communication with Constellation Satellites, UAVs, HAPs and Balloons

Laser Communication with Constellation Satellites, UAVs, HAPs and Balloons
Author: Arun K. Majumdar
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2022-06-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3031039726

This book presents posits a solution to the current limitations in global connectivity by introducing a global laser/optical communication system using constellation satellites, UAVs, HAPs and Balloons. The author outlines how this will help to satisfy the tremendous increasing demand for data exchange and information between end-users worldwide including in remote locations. The book provides both fundamentals and the advanced technology development in establishing worldwide communication and global connectivity using, (I) All-Optical technology, and (ii) Laser/Optical Communication Constellation Satellites (of different types, sizes and at different orbits), UAVs, HAPs (High Altitude Platforms) and Balloons. The book discusses step-by-step methods to develop a satellite backbone in order to interconnect a number of ground nodes clustered within a few SD-WAN (software-defined networking) in a wide area network (WAN) around the world in order to provide a fully-meshed communication network. This book pertains to anyone in optical communications, telecommunications, and system engineers, as well as technical managers in the aerospace industry and the graduate students, and researchers in academia and research laboratory. Proposed a solution to the limitations in global connectivity through a global laser/optical communication system using constellation satellites, UAVs, HAPs and Balloons; Provides both fundamentals and the advanced technology development in establishing global communication connectivity using optical technology and communication constellation satellites; Includes in-depth coverage of the basics of laser/optical communication constellation satellites.

Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Volume 4

Innovations in Smart Cities Applications Volume 4
Author: Mohamed Ben Ahmed
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 1530
Release: 2021-02-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030668401

This proceedings book is the fourth edition of a series of works which features emergent research trends and recent innovations related to smart city presented at the 5th International Conference on Smart City Applications SCA20 held in Safranbolu, Turkey. This book is composed of peer-reviewed chapters written by leading international scholars in the field of smart cities from around the world. This book covers all the smart city topics including Smart Citizenship, Smart Education, Smart Mobility, Smart Healthcare, Smart Mobility, Smart Security, Smart Earth Environment & Agriculture, Smart Economy, Smart Factory and Smart Recognition Systems. This book contains a special section intended for Covid-19 pandemic researches. This book edition is an invaluable resource for courses in computer science, electrical engineering and urban sciences for sustainable development.

Optical Wireless Communications

Optical Wireless Communications
Author: Murat Uysal
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2016-08-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319302019

This book focuses on optical wireless communications (OWC), an emerging technology with huge potential for the provision of pervasive and reliable next-generation communications networks. It shows how the development of novel and efficient wireless technologies can contribute to a range of transmission links essential for the heterogeneous networks of the future to support various communications services and traffic patterns with ever-increasing demands for higher data-transfer rates. The book starts with a chapter reviewing the OWC field, which explains different sub-technologies (visible-light, ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) communications) and introduces the spectrum of application areas (indoor, vehicular, terrestrial, underwater, intersatellite, deep space, etc.). This provides readers with the necessary background information to understand the specialist material in the main body of the book, which is in four parts. The first of these deals with propagation modelling and channel characterization of OWC channels at different spectral bands and with different applications. The second starts by providing a unified information-theoretic treatment of OWC and then discusses advanced physical-layer methodologies (including, but not limited to: advanced coding, modulation diversity, cooperation and multi-carrier techniques) and the ultimate limitations imposed by practical constraints. On top of the physical layer come the upper-layer protocols and cross-layer designs that are the subject of the third part of the book. The last part of the book features a chapter-by-chapter assessment of selected OWC applications. Optical Wireless Communications is a valuable reference guide for academic researchers and practitioners concerned with the future development of the world’s communication networks. It succinctly but comprehensively presents the latest advances in the field.

Laser Space Communications

Laser Space Communications
Author: David G. Aviv
Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2006
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

This groundbreaking resource is the first book to offer you a thorough, practical treatment of laser space communications. The book focuses on the feasibility of laser space communication links between satellites, satellites and airborne platforms, and satellites and ground based stations to achieve worldwide connectivity. You get expert guidance on weather avoidance approaches and adaptive antenna subsystems that help mitigate the effects of turbulence. The book presents simplified, yet highly accurate, engineering expressions of complex mathematics of turbulence that provide you with numerical values in the links' signal power budget. Moreover, you find an entire chapter devoted to noise photons and their effect on the bit error rate. This comprehensive volume covers a wide range of critical topics you need to understand for your work in the field, from a discussion on laser vs. RF communications in space, basic design features of a laser transceiver, and configuration of inter-satellite communication links, to selection of ground station locations, 5th Generation Internet (5-GENIN), and signal modulation schemes. The book is supported with over 70 illustrations and more than 100 equations.

Next Generation CubeSats and SmallSats

Next Generation CubeSats and SmallSats
Author: Francesco Branz
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 838
Release: 2023-08-24
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128245425

Next Generation of CubeSats and SmallSats: Enabling Technologies, Missions, and Markets provides a comprehensive understanding of the small and medium sized satellite approach and its potentialities and limitations. The book analyzes promising applications (e.g., constellations and distributed systems, small science platforms that overachieve relative to their development time and cost) as paradigm-shifting solutions for space exploitation, with an analysis of market statistics and trends and a prediction of where the technologies, and consequently, the field is heading in the next decade. The book also provides a thorough analysis of CubeSat potentialities and applications, and addresses unique technical approaches and systems strategies. Throughout key sections (introduction and background, technology details, systems, applications, and future prospects), the book provides basic design tools scaled to the small satellite problem, assesses the technological state-of-the-art, and describes the most recent advancements with a look to the near future. This new book is for aerospace engineering professionals, advanced students, and designers seeking a broad view of the CubeSat world with a brief historical background, strategies, applications, mission scenarios, new challenges and upcoming advances. - Presents a comprehensive and systematic view of the technologies and space missions related to nanosats and smallsats - Discusses next generation technologies, up-coming advancements and future perspectives - Features the most relevant CubeSat launch initiatives from NASA, ESA, and from developing countries, along with an overview of the New Space CubeSat market

Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers for Chaos Secure Communications

Mid-infrared Quantum Cascade Lasers for Chaos Secure Communications
Author: Olivier Spitz
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2021-05-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030743071

The mid-infrared domain is a promising optical domain because it holds two transparency atmospheric windows, as well as the fingerprint of many chemical compounds. Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) are one of the available sources in this domain and have already been proven useful for spectroscopic applications and free-space communications. This thesis demonstrates how to implement a private free-space communication relying on mid-infrared optical chaos and this requires an accurate cartography of non-linear phenomena in quantum cascade lasers. This private transmission is made possible by the chaos synchronization of two twin QCLs. Chaos in QCLs can be generated under optical injection or external optical feedback. Depending on the parameters of the optical feedback, QCLs can exhibit several non-linear phenomena in addition to chaos. Similarities exist between QCLs and laser diodes when the chaotic dropouts are synchronized with an external modulation, and this effect is known as the entrainment phenomenon. With a cross-polarization reinjection technique, QCLs can generate all-optical square-waves. Eventually, it is possible to trigger optical extreme events in QCLs with tilted optical feedback. All these experimental results allow a better understanding of the non-linear dynamics of QCLs and will extend the potential applications of this kind of semiconductor lasers.

An Introduction to Optical Wireless Mobile Communication

An Introduction to Optical Wireless Mobile Communication
Author: Harald Haas
Publisher: Artech House
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1630816566

The use of the optical spectrum for wireless communications has gained significant interest in recent years. Applications range from low-rate simplex transmission links using existing embedded CMOS cameras in smartphones, referred to as optical camera communications (OCC), mobile light fidelity (LiFi) networking in homes, offices, urban and sub-sea environments to free-space gigabit interconnects in data centers and point-to-point long-range wireless backhaul links outdoors and in space. This exciting book focuses on the use of optical wireless communications (OWC) for mobile use cases. The book discusses existing conventional radio frequency (RF)-based wireless access technology and presents the challenges that can impact the requirements of the future wave of new wireless services in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) driven autonomous systems and machine-type communications. The relationship between visible light communications (VLC) and light fidelity (LiFi), is explored, and the major advantages of VLC and LiFi such as security and data density, and discuss existing research challenges are also introduced. Channel modeling techniques are provided for mobile multiuser scenarios, and will introduce key building blocks to achieve LiFi cellular networks achieving orders of magnitude improvements of area spectral efficiency compared to state-of-the-art. Challenges that arise from moving from a static point-to-point visible light link to a LiFi network that is capable of serving hundreds of mobile and fixed nodes are discussed. An overview of recent standardization activities and the commercialization challenges of this disruptive technology is also provided.

Optical Fibre And Laser : Principles And Applications

Optical Fibre And Laser : Principles And Applications
Author: Anuradha De
Publisher: New Age International
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiber optics
ISBN: 8122415180

This Book Presents A Comprehensive Overview Of The Present Day Status Of Optical Fibre And Laser Technology, Stating Their Principles And Various Applications Including Optical Telecommunications Largely Avoiding Mathematical Treatment.Keeping The Idea In Mind That We Understand The Subject Better By Doing Experiments On It, Large Number Of Experiments On Laser And Optical Fibre Have Been Included Starting From Very Simple Demonstration To Complicated Ones.Some Theoretical Discussions Are Also Included In The Appendix As A Ready Reference. These Are - Dual Nature Of Light, Electromagnetic Wave, Interference, Diffraction And Polarization Of Light, Propagation Modes Through Optical Fibre Waveguide, Basic Digital Communication And Networking In Telecommunication.The Curricula Of These Emerging Fields Of Study Are Constantly Being Updated With The Rapid Growth Of Technology. With This View In Mind, The Areas Beyond The Present Day Curriculum Of Degree / Diploma Engineering Level Have Also Been Covered In This Book. The Students Of Degree / Diploma Engineering In Electronics / Electronics & Telecommunication As Well As Students Of Any Other Engineering Discipline And Undergraduate Applied Physics Would Find This Book Well Informative. The Post Graduate Students / Readers With Advanced Knowledge Can Also Use This Book For Ready Reference.