AOptix Technologies Completes Air Force Flight Test Pr
of Breakthrough Laser Communications System
Ground Observers Watch Live Uncompressed HD Video Feeds From Airplane Cameras at Over 100 Kilometers Distan
December 15, 2009 03:01 AM Eastern Time
CAMPBELL, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--AOptix Technologies, Inc. (AOptix) (www.aoptix.com), a leading edge de
high bandwidth laser communication solutions, disclosed today the completion of a two-phase flight test program for the United Stat
Research Laboratory (AFRL) located in Rome, New York, with funding provided by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in
The flight tests were conducted as part of the Enhanced Air-to-Ground Lasercom System (EAGLS) Program, and demonstrated A
capabilities in Pointing, Acquisition, and Tracking (PAT) along with ultra-high bandwidth real-time communications between their air
R3.1 Lasercom terminal and LCT-5 fixed-ground Lasercom terminal.
Flying at an altitude of approximately 12,000ft above ground level (AGL), and with a slant distance of more than 100 kilometers, A
demonstrated a low-power, eye-safe, ultra-high bandwidth air-to-ground Free Space Optical (FSO) link. Covering an effective gro
than 31,000 square kilometers, the single bi-directional 2.5 Gbps multi-channel data link transmitted live simultaneous uncompresse
(HD) video from two different airplane cameras and gigabit Ethernet. AOptix also demonstrated advanced error correction capabili
Clock Recovery (ACR) and Forward Error Correction (FEC) techniques developed specifically for an ultra-high bandwidth FSO li
“Our defense lasercom products deliver critically needed optical bandwidth for the war fighter,” says Dean Senner, President and C
Technologies. “In- theater operations requiring real-time dissemination of persistent Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (
are no longer limited by the data rate constraints of today’s radio frequency (RF) networks.”
The AOptix wireless bi-directional optical terminals utilize a unique patented, sing