National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents
Infrared Earth Tracking for Deep-Space Optical Communications--Laboratory Experiments
Y. Chen, J. Charles, H. Hemmati, and A. Biswas
A Fiber-Based Master Oscillator Power Amplifier Laser Transmitter for Optical Communications
M. W. Wright and J. Kovalik
Photon Jitter Mitigation for the Optical Channel
B. Moision
Low-Density Parity-Check Code Design Techniques to Simplify Encoding
J. M. Perez and K. Andrews
Performance Comparison of the LQG and PI Controllers in Wind Gusts
W. Gawronski and P. Perez-Zapardiel
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