Optical satellite networks

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1792-1806

  Karafolas, Nikos ^a,b   Baroni, Stefano ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Netherlands)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c R and D Transmission Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical communications; Satellite communications; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; FIBER OPTIC NETWORKS; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; FREQUENCY HOPPING; LASER APPLICATIONS; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; OPTICAL LINKS; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL OPTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

GLOBAL OPTICAL BACKBONE NETWORK; LOW EARTH ORBIT SYSTEMS; MATRIX LIGHTPATH ALLOCATION; MEDIUM EARTH ORBIT SYSTEMS; MULTIGIGABIT LASER INTERSATELLITE LINKS; MULTIHOP OPTICAL NETWORKING; NONGEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITE CONSTELLATION NETWORKS; OPTICAL SATELLITE NETWORKS; SINGLE HOP OPTICAL NETWORKING; WAVELENGTH ROUTING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0034452851     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.908734     Document Type: Article

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