Liquid crystal beam directors for airborne free-space optical communications

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1702-1708

  Winker, Bruce ^a   Mahajan, Milind ^a   Hunwardsen, Matthew ^a  

^a ROCKWELL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRO-OPTIC SENSORS; FIELD OF REGARD (FOR); FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS (FSOC); OPTICAL PHASED ARRAYS (OPA);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS; AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ERROR CORRECTION; LIGHT MODULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIRRORS; PRISMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPACE RESEARCH; VIDEO CAMERAS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 10044231561     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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