Mitigation of atmospheric-turbulence effects over a 2.4 km near horizontal propagation path with a 134 control-channel MEMS/VLSI adaptive transceiver system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5162, Issue , 2003, Pages 1-13

  Weyrauch, Thomas ^a   Vorontsov, Mikhail A ^a,b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive optics; Speckle beacon; Stochastic parallel gradient descent

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; DISTORTION (WAVES); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; FEEDBACK; FIBER LASERS; LASER OPTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCINTILLATION; TRANSCEIVERS; VLSI CIRCUITS; WAVEFRONTS;

SPECKLE BEACONS; STOCHASTIC PARALLEL GRADIENT DESCENT (SPGD);

ADAPTIVE OPTICS;

EID: 1842426954     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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