Patent ID: 7197248

Claim:
A full duplex method of communicating in a free-space laser communication system comprising the steps of: measuring beam quality metric information from laser beams transmitted between a first laser communication transceiver and a second laser communication transceiver of the free-space laser communication system, in the absence of a wavefront sensor; sharing the beam quality metric information between the first and second laser communication transceivers of the free-space laser communication system; controlling wave-front correctors incorporated into both the first and second laser communication transceivers with the beam quality metric information received by using beam quality metric information received from the second transceiver to drive a blind optimization algorithm that controls the wave-front corrector of the first transceiver; and shaping the wave-front phase of the laser beams transmitted between the first and second laser communication transceivers of the free-space laser communication system by the wave-front correctors.