Cobalt optical crosslink terminal
Ryan Kingsbury, Jon Twichell, S. E. Palo · 2022
Blue Cubed has developed Cobalt, a gigabit-per-second class optical crosslink terminal that has been engineered to minimize cost and be easily mass produced. These benefits are realized through the design’s novel, patented self-referenced optical architecture. This approach greatly relaxes manufacturing tolerances and makes the terminal exceptionally robust to environmental loading. Herein the status of terminal development, lessons learned in design validation, and the path towards an on-orbit demonstration are discussed.