Atmosphere tolerant acquisition, tracking and pointing subsystem

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4975, Issue , 2003, Pages 36-44

  Lee, Shinhak ^a   Ortiz, Gerardo G ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Atmosphere; Fade; Optical communications; Pointing; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ATMOSPHERICS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ESTIMATION; LASER BEAMS; SENSORS; VIBRATION MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC INDUCED FADING EFFECTS; FOCAL PLANE ARRAY; INERTIAL SENSOR;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0345724843     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.478940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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