Design and development of a robust ATP subsystem for the altair UAV-to-ground lasercomm 2.5 Gbps demonstration

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4975, Issue , 2003, Pages 103-114

  Ortiz, Gerardo G ^a   Lee, Shinhak ^a   Monacos, Steve ^a   Wright, Malcolm ^a   Biswas, Abhijit ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Free space optical communications; High rate comm; UAV to ground lasercomm

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; BIT ERROR RATE; ERRORS; HIGH DEFINITION TELEVISION; JITTER; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PROBABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; UNMANNED VEHICLES;

ACQUISITION TRACKING AND POINTING SUBSYSTEM; FOCAL PLANE ARRAY; JITTER ERROR; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE TO GROUND FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 0344980074     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478939     Document Type: Conference Paper

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