Channels and Codes for Magneto-optical Recording

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1992, Pages 57-72

  Lynch, Robert T ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES, SYMBOLIC - ENCODING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; NOISE, SPURIOUS SIGNAL - SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION;

MAGNETOOPTICAL RECORDING; OPTICAL RECORDING CHANNEL; PARTIAL RESPONSE CHANNELS; PEAK POSITION MODULATION; VITERBI DETECTION;

DATA STORAGE, OPTICAL;

EID: 0026686005     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.124469     Document Type: Letter

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