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Laser Communications
Articles
Note: Some of the following articles are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. To view and print these files, you'll need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader program. (Version 3.0 or later required). More information here.
- A Laser Communications Primer -- Part 1 (2,880,281 bytes, PDF file)
QST September 1990, pp. 19-24
A tutorial on lasers and how they work.
- A Laser Communications Primer -- Part 2 (2,420,832 bytes, PDF file)
QST October 1990, pp. 22-26
Make a laser communications system from a laser tag game.
- Lasers and Amateur Radio (491,562 bytes, PDF file)
QEX January 1985, pp. 5-10
An introduction to lasers.
- Laser Communication Range (109,004 bytes, PDF file)
QST April 1989, p. 74
Calculating the range of a laser communications system.
- A Laser Transceiver for the ARRL 10-GHz-and-Up Contest (883,186 bytes, PDF file)
QEX November/December 2001, pp.11-19
An optical transceiver you can build to get on the 6500-A band
Note:
Contact information for suppliers mentioned in the above articles should first be confirmed using TIS Address Database Search.
Bibliography (Members Only)
ARRL Periodicals Index Search - This database contains the QST index from 1915 to the present and the QEX index from 1981 to the present. For QST issues from 1970 to the present, and some selected articles back to 1922 (when construction articles featuring tubes began in earnest), identifying keywords have been added to the technical articles. By entering keywords (ANTENNA) or combinations of keywords (CONSTRUCTION ANTENNA VERTICAL HF) into the Title words: field, you may create dynamic bibliographies.
Technical article KEYWORD list. Hints for more successful searching
Suggested keywords for more articles like the ones on this page are: LASER
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