Free-space optical transmission of multimedia satellite data streams using mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers

Electronics Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 181-183

  Martini, R ^a   Bethea, C ^a   Capasso, F ^a   Gmachl, C ^a   Paiella, R ^b   Whittaker, E A ^c   Hwang, H Y ^a   Sivco, D L ^a   Baillargeon, J N ^a   Cho, A Y ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b AGERE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c Stevens Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SIGNAL ENCODING;

QUANTUM CASCADE (QC) LASERS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 0037075153     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20020122     Document Type: Article

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