Coherent optical array receivers for the mitigation of atmospheric turbulence and speckle effects

Applied Optics

Volumn 35, Issue 30, 1996, Pages 5999-6009

  Gatt, Philip ^a,b   Costello, Thomas P ^a,c   Heimmermann, Dean A ^a,d   Castellanos, Diana C ^a,d   Weeks, Arthur R ^a   Stickley, C Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Division of Coherent Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c AirNet Communications Corp   (United States)

^d National Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence compensation; Coherent optical array receivers; Coherent optical communications; Electro optic phase locked loop; Heterodyne arrays; Space diversity receivers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000298117     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.35.005999     Document Type: Article

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