A review on pointing, acquisition, and tracking approaches in UAV-based FSO communication systems

R Abdelfatah, N Alshaer, T Ismail - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2022 - Springer
The challenge of tracking unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is arising out of increasing their
market and spread usage in many applications. Miscuing UAVs can lead to potential threats …

A Comprehensive Review of UAV-Assisted FSO Relay Systems

NJ Nzekwu, MA Fernandes, GM Fernandes… - Photonics, 2024 - mdpi.com
The evolving requirements of next-generation mobile communications networks can be met
by leveraging vertically deployed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) platforms integrated with …

Modulating retroreflector based free space optical link for UAV-to-ground communications

MT Dabiri, M Rezaee, L Mohammadi… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Weight reduction and low power consumption are key requirements in the next generation of
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks. Employing modulating retro-reflector (MRR) …

Tracking efficiency improvement according to incident beam size in QPD-based PAT system for common path-based full-duplex FSO terminals

S Park, CI Yeo, YS Heo, JH Ryu, HS Kang, DS Lee… - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Free space optical (FSO) communication can support various unmanned aerial
vehicles'(UAVs) applications that require large capacity data transmission. In order to …

Statistical-QoS guarantee for IoT network driven by laser-powered UAV relay and RF backscatter communications

MZ Hassan, MJ Hossain, J Cheng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Resource optimization is investigated for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted relay
assisted Internet-of-Things (U-IoT) network. A comprehensive network structure is proposed …

A high speed retro-reflective free space optics links with UAV

C Quintana, Q Wang, D Jakonis, O Oberg… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In this work we report the design and implementation of a very high speed retro-reflective
free space communication system between a ground station and a commercial unmanned …

A Review on Deployment of UAV-FSO System for High-Speed Communication

Y Tumma, VK Kappala - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Demand for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has increased enormously due to the
accessibility provided by them even for remote/restricted locations. They are widely used for …

High speed electro-absorption modulator for long range retroreflective free space optics

C Quintana, Q Wang, D Jakonis, X Piao… - IEEE Photonics …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we present the design and implementation of a pixelated electro-absorption
modulator-based modulating retroreflector (MRR) for high-speed optical wireless …

[HTML][HTML] Common path-based mobile free-space optical terminal with adaptive beamforming function for Gbps out-of-band full-duplex connectivity to UAVs

S Park, CI Yeo, YS Heo, JH Ryu, HS Kang, SC Kim… - Optics …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents simple and compact mobile free-space optical (FSO) terminals based
on a common optical path with an adaptive beamforming function to provide an enhanced …

Laser coarse-fine coupling tracking by cascaded rotation Risley-prism pairs

A Li, W Sun, X Liu, W Gong - Applied Optics, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Rotation Risley prisms are increasingly used for laser tracking due to high precision and
good dynamic performance. In this paper, a novel laser coarse-fine coupling tracking …