Optical communication over the turbulent atmospheric channel using spatial diversity

Conference Record / IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Volumn 3, Issue , 2002, Pages 2055-2060

  Shin, Etty J ^a   Chan, Vincent W S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIVERSITY RECEPTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PROBABILITY; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

OPTICAL CHANNELS; POWER GAIN;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0036968974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (4)

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