[Laser] Earth moon communications

[Joe Fitzgerald]

Iona Stenhouse wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering if anyone would be able to give me some advice on long 
> distance laser communications. I have an assignment to design a earth 
> moon laser communications system and only really know a tiny bit about 
> lasers. any information would be much appreciated.
> 

Here is a link to a paper on a similar communications project, except 
the target is Mars.  The moon is quite a bit simpler.

http://tmo.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report/42-154/154L.pdf

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http://www.google.com/search?&q=+laser+site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Ftmo.jpl.nasa.gov

will give you lots of other papers from the same site.

-Joe KM1P