Beam width and transmitter power adaptive to tracking system performance for free-space optical communication

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 6095-6101

  Arnon, Shlomi ^a   Rotman, Stanly ^a   Kopeika, Norman S ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptive beam width; Optical phased array; Optical satellite communication; Vibrations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000457507     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.006095     Document Type: Article

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