NKT Photonics Fiber Lasers Enable Groundbreaking Deep-Space Communication

2025/07/21
  • Hamamatsu Photonics K. K.
    Headquarters: 325-6, Sunayama-cho, Chuo-ku,
    Hamamatsu City, Japan
    President and CEO: Tadashi Maruno

On July 7, ESA, the European Space Agency, successfully established Europe’s first deep-space optical communication link with NASA’s Psyche mission using a high-power fiber laser system from NKT Photonics, a subsidiary of Hamamatsu Photonics.

This groundbreaking achievement, conducted with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment, marks a significant leap forward in high-data-rate communication across vast interplanetary distances. 

 

 

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