Free Space Optical Communications System for Advancing Superiority on the Battlefield

Fixed and tactical information networking, especially for defense applications, has begun to require increasing data transmission capacity as the volume of information available to warfighters grows through more sophisticated sensors and capabilities. The breadth of the information grid is growing beyond the capacity of radio frequency (RF) or microwave broadband direct line of sight (DLoS) links. RF systems in particular are gridlocked by a congested spectrum, can be limited by licensing issues, and in hostile environments, can be jammed.