Projects
![A schematic showing links between small uncrewed aerial vehicles and ground vehicles.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2025-01/precision_clock_ISR.png?itok=oFf1lb-t)
Precision Clock Synchronization for Advanced Sensing
Combined quantum networking and lasercom optical signaling techniques could impact advanced sensing applications such as geolocation with distributed systems.
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![An illustration of data being sent across a laser from a small satellite to a ground station on Earth.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/news/image/2022-11/tbird_conops_public_notext.jpg?h=d1cb525d&itok=FFp50AcU)
TeraByte InfraRed Delivery (TBIRD)
The laser communications payload has delivered terabytes of data from a satellite to Earth at record-breaking rates that will transform future science missions.
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![A rendition of a communications payload on its spacecraft host, with laser links over the Earth connecting Hawaii and California.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2023-06/LCRD%20schematic.png?itok=e8EDbJG0)
Laser Communications Relay Demonstration
Optical communications technologies decades in the making at Lincoln Laboratory were transferred to NASA for its first two-way laser relay communications system.
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![The Laboratory's novel optical communication system was integrated on a robotic undersea vehicle.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-09/513340-001D.jpg?itok=TfYjjZNq)
Undersea Optical Communications
A system that enables robust, long-distance communications between underwater vehicles exploits laser technology.
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![The International Space Station will be outfitted with our ILLUMA-T laser terminal to provide optical communications.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-03/323070main_s119e009662_hires.jpg?h=3ced22da&itok=R0xQ3YVh)
![The high-rate, entangled-photon source technologies will be integrated into the optical fiber quantum network test bed.](/sites/default/files/styles/list/public/project/image/2018-04/Quantum_Source.jpg?itok=NHhuvkBt)
Quantum Network Test Bed
Lincoln Laboratory and MIT researchers are creating a shared quantum network test bed that will be used for developing and realistic testing of applications that take advantage of quantum science's potential to enable diverse, advanced communication, sensing, and computing systems.
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