Overview of the FASOLT experiment and final results

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4975, Issue , 2003, Pages 134-145

  David, Florian ^a   Giggenbach, Dirk ^a   Landrock, Rainer ^a   Horwath, Joachim ^a   Pribil, Klaus ^b   Fischer, Edgar ^b   Buschner, Robert ^c   Blaschke, Detlev ^c  

^a German Aerospace Center   (Switzerland)

^b Oerlikon Space AG   (Switzerland)

^c AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Free space laser communications; Ground to ground link; Refraction; Scintillations

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRANSMITTERS;

ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION; FREE SPACE LASER COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL DATA TRANSMISSION; SCINTILLATION STATISTICS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0042689063     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478930     Document Type: Conference Paper

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