Effects of time averaging on optical scintillation in a ground-to-satellite atmospheric propagation

Applied Optics

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1911-1919

  Toyoshima, Morio ^a,b   Araki, Kenichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; JITTER; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SATELLITES;

OPTICAL SIGNALS;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 0000211144     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.39.001911     Document Type: Article

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