Performance of satellite-to-ground communications link between ARTEMIS and the optical ground station

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5572, Issue , 2004, Pages 372-383

  Alonso, Angel ^a   Reyes, Marcos ^a   Sodnik, Zoran ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ARTEMIS; Bit error rate measurements; G; O; S; Satellite to ground laser communication

Indexed keywords

ARTEMIS; BIT ERROR RATE MEASUREMENTS; OGS; SATELLITE-TO-GROUND LASER COMMUNICATIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BIT ERROR RATE; BOUNDARY LAYERS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SCINTILLATION;

TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

EID: 15944366871     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.565516     Document Type: Conference Paper

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