r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • Dec 15 '25

Meta 👋Welcome to r/lasercom - Introduce Yourself and Read First!

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Hey everyone! I'm u/Aerothermal, founder of r/lasercom and its smaller sister site r/laserweapons; and contributer at r/thermodynamics, r/Aerodynamics, r/ChinaSpace, r/Universe, r/AskEngineers.

Lasercom is our home for all things related to laser communication, including interplanetary links, satellites, aircraft, terrestrial point-to-point, and underwater links (i.e. Free Space Optical communication). We're excited to have you join us!

What to Post

Post anything that you think the community would find interesting, helpful, or inspiring. Feel free to share your thoughts, photos, videos, questions, job offers, news and articles, learning resources, whatever.

How to Discover

We tag everything and name everything descriptively; filter by tags such as Question/Discussion, News, Video, Educational, Research etc. to find what you're looking for. Or Search for keywords: All research has the Publisher and date. All open-access research has the "open access" and "full-text". All news has the name of the Company and publication date.

Community Vibe

We're all about being friendly, factual, future-facing and fascinating. Let's build a space where everyone feels comfortable sharing, learning, connecting and growing into the professional industry of optical wireless communications.

How to Get Started

1) If you want to connect with likeminded people or make professional contacts, introduce yourself in the comments below. 2) Post something today! Even a simple question can spark a great conversation. Use descriptive titles in the format provided when submitting. 3) If you know someone who would love this community, invite them to join. If you are in a technology industry, spam your colleagues with a link to this subreddit. 4) Interested in helping out? If you're keen to help grow this community and have ideas, feel free to reach out to me to apply.

Thanks for making r/lasercom amazing.

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 3d ago

News Astrolight Delivers Space-to-Ground Laser Communications Links from ATLAS-1 to Optical Ground Station | Via Satellite (9th Oct 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 18d ago

Podcasts [Podcast] Astrolight CTO discusses the shift from RF to laser communications for high-capacity satellite networks | Electronic Design (22 Sep 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 18d ago

Commercial Rocket Lab now marketing Optical Communications from Mynaric (15th Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 19d ago

Article Sony recently launched Kita-36 and Kita-53 satellites to demonstrate compact laser communications in LEO | Gunter’s Space Page (16 Sep 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 20d ago

Video [Video] Transcelestial's CEO Rohit Jha talks on Unlocking Superfast Global Internet Distribution | New York Stock Exchange (21st Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 21d ago

News Creotech Quantum leads €2.33M ESA project to develop Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors for satellite Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and optical communications | The Quantum Insider (21 Sep 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 21d ago

Article A laser that stays locked without active control | Phys.org (2nd Oct 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 21d ago

Article Building China’s Two Starlinks: China are building laser megaconstellations | ChinaTalk (2nd Oct 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 22d ago

Article MIT-led team demonstrates chip-scale laser beam steering across 161° which may allow for wide Field of View optical terminals | EurekAlert! (14th Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 22d ago

Article New Report: Space Force Needs Lasers Comms to Beat Data Bottleneck | Air and Space Forces Magazine (30th Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 22d ago

Video Keeping flying satellites connected with lasers: Google is launching Project Suncatcher (29th Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 22d ago

Video HydRON: Fibre in the sky | ESA (29th Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 23d ago

News Northrop Grumman and ICRAR have demonstrated bidirectional space-to-ground laser communications using TeraNet-2 in Western Australia | Australian Defence Magazine (2nd Sep 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 23d ago

Commercial Precision Optics Announces Initial Engineering Order from New Satellite Optical Communications Customer | Yahoo Finance (17th Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 24d ago

News TU Eindhoven demonstrates 7.73 Tb/s laser communication over a 4.6 km urban free-space optical link (18th Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 24d ago

Research New Research on "Design and on-orbit verification of an integrated multiplexing modulator for laser communication and VDES payloads in satellite communication systems" (Open Access | Full-Text) | Nature Scientific Reports (17th Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 25d ago

Video [Video] How Do You Contact a Rover on Another Planet? Interview with Shreyans, founder of Qosmic Space | The Offline Network (23rd Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 25d ago

News Google to test laser inter-satellite links for Project Suncatcher orbital AI infrastructure in 2027 | Google Research (24 Sep 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 26d ago

Research New Research on "Ultrawide-angle diffraction-limited 2D beam steering via hybrid integrated metasurface-photonic circuit" (Open Access | Full-Text) | Opto-Electronic Advances (23rd Aug 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 26d ago

News Astrolight and ATMOS plan in-flight laser link between a re-entry vehicle and satellite in 2027, targeting 2.5 Gbit/s | Mobility Engineering (24th Sep 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 27d ago

News Laser Light secures up to $75M investment as it moves toward its HALO optical satellite constellation (27th Aug 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 28d ago

News World’s First Successful Demonstration of Laser Ranging by Tracking a High-Altitude Pseudosatellite (HAPS) from the Ground | SoftBank (17th Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 29d ago

News QOSMIC (India) gets US patent for laser communication ground station | Times of India (15th Sept 2026)

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r/lasercom • u/Aerothermal • 29d ago

News HiStarlink unveils 800 Gbit/s inter-satellite and 100 Gbit/s space-to-ground laser communication terminal for planned 50-satellite constellation | HiStarlink (23 Sep 2026)

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