Coherent telescope array with self-homodyne interferometric detection for optical communications

Optical Engineering

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 3139-3157

  Souw, Bernard Eng Kie ^a  

^a BMS Enterprise   (United States)

Author keywords

Binary pulse position modulation; Coherent telescope array; Differential phase shift keying; Diffraction limited receiver system; Mach Zehnder interferometer; Multiterabit per second; Optical communications; Self homodyne interferometry

Indexed keywords

COHERENT TELESCOPES; SELF-HOMODYNE INTERFEROMETRY;

ARRAYS; COHERENT LIGHT; DEMODULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE DIFFRACTION; INTERFEROMETRY; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE SHIFT KEYING; PHOTONS;

OPTICAL TELESCOPES;

EID: 0347063936     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1612512     Document Type: Conference Paper

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