Measurements of aperture averaging on bit-error-rate

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5891, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-12

  Bastin, Gary L ^a   Andrews, Larry C ^b   Phillips, Ronald L ^b   Nelson, Richard A ^a   Ferrell, Bobby A ^a   Borbath, Michael R ^c   Galus, Darren J ^c   Chin, Peter G ^c   Harris, William G ^a   Marín, José A ^a   Burdge, Geoffrey L ^c   Wayne, David ^b   Pescatore, Robert ^b  

^a KENNEDY SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c National Center for Health Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; BER; Bit error rates; FSO; Lasercom; NRZ; OOK; Scintillation index; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

FSO; SCINTILLATION INDEX; SHUTTLE LANDING FACILITY (SLF);

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BIT ERROR RATE; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACECRAFT LANDING; WAVE PROPAGATION;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 29344461484     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.619459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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