Optical Channels: Practical Limits with Photon Counting

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1978, Pages 1819-1821

  Pierce, J R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0018109561     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOM.1978.1094043     Document Type: Letter

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