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3rd European Lunar Symposium
The 3rd European Lunar Symposium will take place in the Bruno Touschek Auditorium, at LNF-INFN (see map). The program will consist of the following events: May 12th: - The registration desk will open at the ELS venue at 2:30pm and close at 7pm. - Visit to the SCF_Lab space test laboratory (http://www.lnf.infn.it/esperimenti/etrusco/) from 5pm to …
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LNF Mini-Workshop Series: International Year of Light 2015
Year 2015 was proclaimed as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015). Light plays a vital role in our daily lives and is an imperative cross-cutting discipline of science in the 21st century. It has revolutionized medicine, opened up international communication via the Internet, and continues to be central to linking cultural, …
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Laser Communication in Space, developments at ESA
Dr. Zoran Sodnik (ESA)
The first technology developments for optical satellite communication systems, which started in Europe more than 30 years ago, were based on CO2 laser systems. However, CO2 laser technology is not useful in space and when reliable laser-diodes became available ESA developed SILEX (the world-first optical inter-satellite communication link experiment) a data relay link between an …
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