Evaluation of optical up- and downlinks from high altitude platforms using IM/DD

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5712, Issue , 2005, Pages 24-36

  Henniger, Hennes ^a   Giggenbach, Dirk ^a   Horwath, Joachim ^a   Rapp, Christoph ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b MUNICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric optical transmission; Availability; Background light; Cloud; Diversity; Fog; High altitude platform; Up downlinks

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL TRANSMISSIONS; BACKGROUND LIGHT; DIVERSITY; HIGH ALTITUDE PLATFORM; UP-DOWNLINKS;

ATMOSPHERIC SPECTRA; AVAILABILITY; BANDWIDTH; CLOUDS; DATA TRANSFER; FOG; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL LINKS; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; WAVES;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

EID: 21844469968     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.600803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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