Indirect measurement of a laser communications bit-error-rate reduction with low-order adaptive optics

Applied Optics

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2003, Pages 4239-4243

  Tyson, Robert K ^a   Canning, Douglas E ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MIRRORS; OPTICAL LINKS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SCINTILLATION;

FREE-SPACE LINKS;

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 0042232305     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.42.004239     Document Type: Article

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