Mitigation of turbulence-induced scintillation noise in free-space optical links using temporal-domain detection techniques

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 623-625

  Zhu, Xiaoming ^a   Kahn, Joseph M ^a   Wang, Jin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical communication; Random media; Signal detection

Indexed keywords

GAIN MEASUREMENT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE OPTICS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL OPTICS;

FREE SPACE OPTICAL LINKS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD SEQUENCE DETECTION; ON-OFF KEYING; PILOT SYMBOL ASSISTED DETECTION; RANDOM MEDIA; SCINTILLATION NOISE; TEMPORAL DOMAIN DETECTION;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 0037390923     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2003.809305     Document Type: Article

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