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Group to Develop Platform for Free-Space Communications

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A group of UK companies and universities will develop a next-generation optical platform for free-space optical communications. The proj-ect, known as Alfonso -- Adaptive Long-Wave Free-Space Optical Network Solutions -- and valued at more than £720,000, will combine the mid-IR, optically pumped, vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser technology of the Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, in Glasgow with the expertise in adaptive optics at the University of Durham. Industrial partners Sira, Cablefree Solutions Ltd., Ferranti Photonics Ltd. and Starpoint Adaptive Optics...Read full article

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    Published: February 2004
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    vertical external-cavity surface-emitting laser
    A laser that has a surface-emitting semiconductor gain element coupled to an external mirror designed to complete the laser resonator. VECSELs can be electrically or optically pumped. The extended cavity can emit high power from a relatively large emitting area.
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