The NASA Glenn Research Center's development of a high-photon efficiency real-time
optical communications ground receiver has added superconducting nanowire single-photon …

Photonic lanterns provide an efficient way of coupling light from a single large-core fiber to
multiple small-core fibers. This capability is of interest for space to ground communication …

Space-to-ground photon-counting optical communication links supporting high data rates
over large distances require enhanced ground receiver sensitivity in order to reduce the mass …

Aerospace technologies are crucial for modern civilization; space-based infrastructure
underpins weather forecasting, communications, terrestrial navigation and logistics, planetary …

Dynamically reconfigurable structural colors are promising materials for new smart optical
systems. However, improved reflected color quality (eg, saturation, optical contrast, angular …

Modeling the effects of atmospheric turbulence on optical beam propagation is a key element
in the design and analysis of free-space optical communication systems. Numerical wave …

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Glenn Research Center (GRC)
has developed a photon-counting optical ground receiver for pulse-position modulated …

For high photon-efficiency deep space or low power optical communications links, such as
the Orion Artemis-2 Optical Communications System (O2O) project, the received optical …

Photonic lanterns are being evaluated as a component of a scalable photon counting real-time
optical ground receiver for space-to-ground photon-starved communication applications. …

In this paper, we examine the problem of coupling partially coherent light from a telescope
into an optical fiber within the framework of phase space optics using Wigner distributions. …