Data analysis results from the GOLD experiments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2990, Issue , 1997, Pages 70-81

  Jeganathan, Muthu ^a   Toyoshima, Morio ^b   Wilson, Keith E ^a   James, Jonathan C ^c   Xu, Guangshui ^d   Lesh, James R ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aperture averaging; Atmospheric scintillation; Downlink; Free space optical communication; Laser communication; Link budget; Multi beam uplink

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COMMUNICATION; EXPERIMENTS; LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL LINKS; PHOTONICS; POWER CONTROL; SCINTILLATION; DATA PROCESSING; LASER APPLICATIONS; SATELLITES; SIGNAL DETECTION;

APERTURE AVERAGING; ATMOSPHERIC SCINTILLATION; DOWNLINK; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; LASER COMMUNICATION; LINK BUDGET; MULTI-BEAM UPLINK;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

DECONVOLVING ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; GOLD EXPERIMENT;

EID: 0030675051     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.273711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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