Detectors for ground-based reception of laser communications from Mars

Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 74-75

  Biswas, A ^a   Farr, W H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BANDWIDTH; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASER PULSES; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

GROUND-BASED RECEPTION; MARS; NOISE EQUIVALENT BANDWIDTH (NEB); PHOTO-DETECTION EFFICIENCY (PDE);

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 14244249269     PISSN: 10928081     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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