Multiple wavelength free-space laser communications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4975, Issue , 2003, Pages 12-19

  Purvinskis, Robert ^a   Giggenbach, Dirk ^a   Henniger, Hennes ^a   Perlot, Nicolas ^a   David, Florian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Direct detection; Free space optical communications; Multiple wavelength

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FADING (RADIO); OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECKLE;

ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION; FREE-SPACE LASER COMMUNICATION; MOLECULAR ABSORPTION; MULTIPLE WAVELENGTH; SOFTWARE PACKAGE MATLAB;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 0344549113     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478932     Document Type: Conference Paper

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