1st Edition

Space Photonic Communications

By Le Nguyen Binh Copyright 2025
834 Pages 637 Color & 88 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

834 Pages 637 Color & 88 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

834 Pages 637 Color & 88 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book explores the extension of fiber optic communications technology to space optical communications. It presents the specific demands for space communications and examines propagation in a vacuum and also over the turbulence of air‑free space. Space Photonic Communications begins with historical aspects of optical communications in both terrestrial and inter‑satellite constellations. It... Read more

Chapter 1 Guided-Wave and Space Technologies

Chapter 2 Space Atmospheric Signal Propagation and Effects on System Performance

Chapter 3 Digital Binary Photonic Modulation for SPC

Chapter 4 Multi-Level Complex Photonic Modulation

Chapter 5 DSP-Based Optical Coherent Receiver for SPC: Physical 

Chapter 6 DSP-Based Optical Coherent Receiver for SPC: Processing and SPC Systems Performance

Chapter 7 Optical Amplifiers and Routers for Space Photonic Transmission

Chapter 8 Nonlinear Effects in SPC for DWDM Channel Transmission

Chapter 9 SPC Power-Limited Quantum Transmission

Chapter 10 SPC-Equivalent System Transmission Performance

Chapter 11 Appendices 1 to 2: Optical Modulators, Integrated Lasers

Chapter 12 Appendices 3 to 7: Fibre and Integrated Waveguides, EDFA Simulation, and ITU Grids

Biography

Le Nguyen Binh, B.Eng (Electron. Eng., Hons) and a Ph.D., and a Dr. Eng. (Integrated Photonics and Optical Communications Engineering). He was recently Fellow at Mynaric Laser Communications GmbH, Gilching, Bavaria, Germany and R&D Director of Huawei Technologies European Research Center in Munich, Deutschland. He was awarded five Huawei Technologies Gold Medals for his work on advanced optical/photonics communication technologies. He was previously the chair of Commission D (Electronics and Photonics) of the National Committee for Radio Sciences of the Australian Academy of Sciences and a professorial fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Christian‑Albrechts‑Universität zu Kiel, and Reader/Professor of Monash University, Australia. Widely published, Dr. Binh is the series editor of Optics and Photonics for CRC Press.