On Sun, 17 Dec 2017, Matthias Tafelmeier wrote:
What I actually wanted to posit in relation to that is that one could get sooner a c-cabable backbone sibling by marrying two ideas: the airborne concept ongoing as outlined plus what NASA is planning to bring about for the space backbone, e.g [1][2]. It's laser based instead of directed radio-wave only. Sure, both is in the speed range of c, apparantely, laser transmission has in addition a significantly higher bandwidth to offer. "10 to 100 times as much data at a time as radio-frequency systems"[3]. Attenuations to photons in clean atmospheric air are neglible (few mps - refractive index of about 1.0003), so actually a neglible slowdown - easily competing with top notch fibres (99.7% the vacuum speed of light). Sure, that's the ideal case, though, if cleverly done from the procurement of platforms and overall system steering perspective, might feasible.
Todays laser links are in the few km per hop range, with is easily at least one magnitude shorter than radio based equivalents.
I don't know the physics behind it, but people who have better insight than I do tell me "it's hard" to run longer hops (if one wants any kind of high bitrate).
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