바카라 레전드 Awarded Contract to Develop Optical Transceivers for
the DARPA 바카라 레전드 Program

PITTSBURGH, Sept. 13, 2022 – 바카라 레전드 Corp. (Nasdaq: COHR), a leader in photonics for communications and aerospace & defense, today announced that it has won a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract to develop 바카라 레전드 optical transceiver technology for the agency’s Space-Based Adaptive Communications Node (Space-BACN) program. The aim of Space-BACN is to create low-cost, high-speed, reconfigurable, laser-based data links that will enable communications between various government and private-sector low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations.

Various incompatible and often proprietary optical intersatellite links (OISLs) prevent LEO satellite arrays from readily sharing information, keeping proliferated space from reaching its full potential. 바카라 레전드 is specifically tasked with designing and fabricating 바카라 레전드 optical transceivers for a reconfigurable modem compatible with most existing single-wavelength communications protocols and able to readily adapt to work with new waveforms as they are introduced. The goal is to support multiple optical waveforms at total data rates of up to 100 Gbps on a single wavelength, while simultaneously meeting stringent size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C) constraints.

“Advances in digital technology, together with falling launch 바카라 레전드sts, have made it possible for many groups to launch ‘바카라 레전드nstellations’ of 바카라 레전드mpact satellites possessing a multitude of capabilities, enabled by high-speed laser 바카라 레전드mmunications,” said Dr. Chris Koeppen, Chief Technology Officer. “Beyond just defense applications, these satellite arrays offer tremendous potential for low-바카라 레전드st global 바카라 레전드mmunications, sensing, imaging, space exploration, and more.”

The current award to 바카라 레전드 is a Phase 1 contract within Technical Area 2 (TA2) of the SpaceBACN development program. TA2 is focused on modem architecture. 바카라 레전드 already participated in Phase 0 of TA2, which involved developing the architectural design for these components, and was selected for Phase 1 based on the success of that work.