Low-Probability-of-Intercept/Low-Probability-of-Detection (LPI/LPD) Data Link

The purpose of this Phase II project is to advance the technology readiness level and provide a proof of concept on key mobile optical wireless technologies licensed exclusively by Optemax, LLC from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Although free space optics (FSO), as a discipline, has been around for 30 years, and many commercial applications were attempted in the late 90¡¦s, significant challenges remain. Those challenges are the effects of weather (clouds and fog specifically), atmospheric distortion (which limits the range of the signal), pointing and tacking (to allow client mobility) and networking (to interface with industry standard networks and allow for path diversity). The feasibility and challenges of these technologies were described in Phase I. In this Phase II project we will advance weather penetration concepts and demonstrate path diversity and FSO networking which we call BeamNet„§.