Far-field pattern measurement of an onboard laser transmitter by use of a space-to-ground optical link

Applied Optics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1720-1730

  Toyoshima, Morio ^a   Araki, Kenichi ^a  

^a Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LASER BEAMS; LASERS; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSMITTERS;

FAR FIELD PATTERN; LASER TRANSMITTER; SPACE TO GROUND OPTICAL LINK;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 0032047678     PISSN: 00036935     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.37.001720     Document Type: Article

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