The innovation allows critical, high-bandwidth submarine communications at speed and depth. This reported innovation is a subsurface optical communications buoy, with active neutral buoyancy and streamlined flow surface veins for depth control. This novel subsurface positioning for the towed communications buoy enables substantial reduction in water-absorption and increased optical transmission by eliminating the intervening water absorption and dispersion, as well as by reducing or eliminating the beam spread and the pulse spreading that is associated with submarine-launched optical beams.


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    Title :

    Towed Subsurface Optical Communications Buoy


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    Publication date :

    2013-01-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

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    Language :

    English






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