Analysis of beam steering tolerances and divergence for various long range FSO communication links

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5819, Issue , 2005, Pages 455-462

  Harris, Alan ^a   Sluss Jr , James J ^a   Refai, Hazem H ^a   Lopresti, Peter G ^b  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b The University of Tulsa Tulsa   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam steering; Divergence; Free space optics; Geometric loss; Laser communications

Indexed keywords

BEAM STEERING; DIVERGENCE; FREE-SPACE OPTICS; GEOMETRIC LOSS; LASER COMMUNICATIONS;

AIRCRAFT; EARTH (PLANET); OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SATELLITES; SIGNAL DETECTION; TOPOLOGY;

TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

EID: 27644475235     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.602503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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