Bit-error rate for free-space adaptive optics laser communications

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 753-758

  Tyson, Robert K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL LINKS; SCINTILLATION;

AMPLITUDE-SHIFT KEYING;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0041662274     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.19.000753     Document Type: Review

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