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The focus of that project was to look at ways to mitigate the affects of atmosopheric turbulence.
So as a laser beam propogates through the atmosphere, it distorts the optical beam,
and in a way that hinders communication.
So a part of the project was to understand the problem -- where we actually developed
simulation code to analyze the way the beam propogates.
A lot of the work was done in astronomy, or directed energy, but we wanted to add a new
twist to see how it affected the communication performance.
In addition to doing that type of work, all of the research we did with our simulation,
led to developing new modem technology and new telescope designs for free-space optical
communication terminal.
And through that research, with the new opitival modem technology, led to several patents as
well.