S.P. Thompson. “The photophone,” Nature 22, 481 (1880).
D.L. Hutt et al. “Alexander Graham Bell's photophone,” Opt. Photon. News 4(6), 20 (June 1993).
“U.S.-Japanese laser communications demo successful,” NASA JPL News, 22 November 1995.
J. Hecht. “Short history of laser development,” Opt. Eng. 49, 091002 (2010).
K. Galvin. “Battle management language: history, employment and NATO technical activities,” NATO Science and Technology Organization (2015).
A.T. Watnik and D.F. Gardner. “Wavefront sensing in deep turbulence,” Opt. Photon. News 29(10), 38 (October 2018).
A.B. Raj and A.K. Majumder. “Historical perspective of free space optical communications: from the early dates to today's developments,” IET Commun. 13, 2405 (2019).
R. Kakarla et al. “One photon-per-bit receiver using near-noiseless phase-sensitive amplification,” Light Sci. Appl. 9, 153 (2020).
H.-Y. Liu et al. “Optical-relayed entanglement distribution using drones as mobile nodes,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 020503 (2021).
A.J. Traverso et al. “Low-loss, centimeter-scale plasmonic metasurface for ultrafast optoelectronics,” Optica 8, 202 (2021).