>If you're referring to the paper I think you're referring to
No clue what paper you're referring to. I'm talking about "dazzlers" like the Shtora-1 being worthless
Some big paper about multi-modal fiber. you use a lot of the same words.
If you and I are both standing next to each other and we both have laser lights and we shine them on top of each other on a wall, we didn't actually interrupt each other's beams.
On the emitter side of things, we can not interrupt each other. It's impossible. I can't jam you and you can't jam me.
Here's the other part of that which you've brought up which is the receiver.
You mentioned Star Link first not me bro. Just making sure you were trying to stay something that's been jammed couldn't be.
You're being retarded and cherry picking.
Again, if you are watching the woods for your buddy's flash light but I send up a White Star, you aren't going to be able to see your buddys light until it burns out because you'll be blinded until it does. It doesn't matter if the signal is reaching you, your retina won't have the sensitivity to pick it out because its drowned out. Same reason its easier to see his flashlight at night, when there's no noise, vs in the day.
If you are shining a laser on a wall as a message, that's a very easy, very low-power optical sensor job. "Is there laser light or not", done.
If I want to fuck with your message, I stand next to you with the same color laser. If you start trying to flash a message in morse code, the only thing I have to do to fuck up your message is keep my laser on. Now, you can get around this upping the precision of your optical sensor, but now you need to improve the intelligence of your optical sensor. "Is there Laser light greater than zero but less than 2x"; all you need is an optical sensor with a precision of X.
So I start varying the signal strength on my laser. Now you need to update the logic "Is there Laser light that is exactly equal to X?" and you need a optical sensor with at least as much precision as I can adjust my laser.
In response, I now start randomly pulsing my laser. Now you dont' just need to clean up the signal, you need to dertermine which illumination is legit. So now in addition to your high-precision sensor, you need to start adding in signal processing to weed out noise.
On and on. There is talk of trying to use laser vectors to clean up data, and they've done this in a lab, but to clean up distortion you need to take multiple, very specific measurements, things that have either be done at very short (lab) or very long (radio telescope) distances.
You are talking about getting your drones to ignore signals from the ground; how do you do that? Are you going to pivot your receiver and add another moving part to produce, service and inspect? Are you going to try to do signal processing; will you have the horsepower do that? Are you going to tell your sensor to ignore input from a portion of it?
These things sound simple, but they are difficult to implement, especially if you want to implement them on something that'll be expected to function the chost of battle.
Anyway, lasers of the sort you're referring to are abysmal for long-range open-air coms.
I leached dorm wifi in college even after moving off campus with a pair of tight-focus directional antenna (and a repeater), and sighting them in was a mother fucker. I had move my set up because people walking in the hall would cause a tiny bit of bounce that would cause my connection to slow way the fuck down. I can't imagine the fun of trying to track multiple drones with a laser tether.
And that's to say nothing of the big target your AWACS is. What does the AWACS do when its engaged by a threat? If it moves, the drones have to keep up with with it (and it the drones). If it doesn't move, how will your drones find a new AWACS? And remember unlike a radio broadcast, your lasers are point to point. All your adversary needs is a detector in the right wavelength, and your motherships are toast, painted by their own comm equipment.
As you start to go autonomous, communication disruption becomes more inconvenient instead of critical.
case in point:
Switchblade 600 is some spooky shit.
That presumes they will not jump ship at the last moment and move to the EU and US to be "victims of Russian imperialism" or "experts of Ukrainian-Russian relations" for future war hawks. We've already been there multiple times.
