Free-space optical communication through atmospheric turbulence channels

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1293-1300

  Zhu, Xiaoming ^b   Kahn, Joseph M ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Free space optical communication; MLSD; Spatial diversity reception

Indexed keywords

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD SEQUENCE DETECTION (MLSD);

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; CORRELATION METHODS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; FADING (RADIO); GAIN CONTROL; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 0036689902     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2002.800829     Document Type: Article

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