由于激光通信可以降低重量,并提高卫星的带宽容量,目前正计划在商业卫星间用激光进行互联。确实,欧洲空间局半导体星际间互联实验(SILEX)正在进行中,纵横天空的光通信网不久会实现。这项技术最早的开发者一欧洲空间局,在1977年开始投资于激光卫星通信,研制高速率激光通信调制器,CO_2激光器最初用来作光源,但由于其重量、寿命等因素不合适,已逐渐被淘汰。80年代中期,第一个民用项目采用了AIGaAs激光二极管作光源。 Because laser communications can reduce weight and increase the satellite’s bandwidth capacity, it is currently planned to use lasers for interworking between commercial satellites. Indeed, the European Space Agency’s Semiconductor Interaction Interop Star Experiment (SILEX) is underway and the optical network of vertical and horizontal skies will soon be realized. The earliest developer of this technology, the European Space Agency, started investing in laser satellite communications in 1977 to develop a high-rate laser communications modulator that was originally used as a light source but due to inadequate factors such as weight and lifetime, Gradually be eliminated. In the mid-1980s, the first civilian project used AIGaAs laser diodes as light sources.