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New opportunities for secure communication networks using shaped femtosecond laser pulses inducing filamentation processes in the atmosphere

Alyami, H. M., Becerra, V. M. and Hadjiloucas, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2380-6114 (2013) New opportunities for secure communication networks using shaped femtosecond laser pulses inducing filamentation processes in the atmosphere. Journal of Physics Conference Series, 472. 012009. ISSN 1742-6588

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/472/1/012009

Abstract/Summary

The current study discusses new opportunities for secure ground to satellite communications using shaped femtosecond pulses that induce spatial hole burning in the atmosphere for efficient communications with data encoded within super-continua generated by femtosecond pulses. Refractive index variation across the different layers in the atmosphere may be modelled using assumptions that the upper strata of the atmosphere and troposphere behaving as layered composite amorphous dielectric networks composed of resistors and capacitors with different time constants across each layer. Input-output expressions of the dynamics of the networks in the frequency domain provide the transmission characteristics of the propagation medium. Femtosecond pulse shaping may be used to optimize the pulse phase-front and spectral composition across the different layers in the atmosphere. A generic procedure based on evolutionary algorithms to perform the pulse shaping is proposed. In contrast to alternative procedures that would require ab initio modelling and calculations of the propagation constant for the pulse through the atmosphere, the proposed approach is adaptive, compensating for refractive index variations along the column of air between the transmitter and receiver.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Life Sciences > School of Biological Sciences > Department of Bio-Engineering
ID Code:38002
Publisher:Institute of Physics

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