Alamouti-type space-time coding for free-space optical communication with direct detection

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-39

  Simon, Marvin K ^a   Vilnrotter, Victor A ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct detection; Optical communications; Space time coding

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PULSE MODULATION; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL GAINS; COMMUNICATION MODELS; DIRECT DETECTION; SPACE-TIME CODING; WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE;

SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING;

EID: 19944383148     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.840216     Document Type: Article

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