Improving coverage and data rate in optical wireless systems

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5892, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-9

  O'Brien, Dominic C ^a  

^a Department of Engineering Science ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free space optical communications; Optical communications; Optical wireless

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SPACE OPTICS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DATA RATE; OPTICAL WIRELESS SYSTEMS; RADIO CHANNELS;

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 29344453570     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.619980     Document Type: Conference Paper

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