Studies of pointing, acquisition, and tracking of agile optical wireless transceivers for free space optical communication networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5237, Issue , 2004, Pages 147-158

  Ho, Tzung Hsien ^a   Trisno, Sugianto ^a   Smolyaninov, Igor I ^a   Milner, Stuart D ^a   Davis, Christopher C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Agile transceivers; Optical wireless; Pointing, Acquisition, and tracking

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; LASER BEAMS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TOPOLOGY; TRANSCEIVERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ACQUISITION; AGILE TRANSCEIVERS; OPTICAL WIRELESS; POINTING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 1942535713     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.511373     Document Type: Conference Paper

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