Free Space Optical Communications

SA Photonics has developed SCORE (SA Photonics Coherent Optical Relay), an optical system for transmitting data and video over long distances at very high bandwidths.  SCORE has a minimal size, weight and power requirement and can be used on satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and even vehicle and soldier mounted datalinks.  SCORE provides an order of magnitude increase in bandwidth over RF communications.  It is also more difficult to intercept or jam.

The SCORE system is capable of achieving single wavelength communication rates of 40 Gigabits per second. By using dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM), we can achieve greater than a Terabit per second on a single communications link.