Scintillation and beam-wander analysis in an optical ground station-satellite uplink

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3866-3873

  Dios, Federico ^a   Rubio, Juan Antonio ^a   Rodríguez, Alejandro ^a   Comerón, Adolfo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SCANNING;

BEAM PROPAGATION; BEAM-WANDER ANALYSIS; OPTICAL GROUND STATION; OPTICAL IRRADIANCE;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 3142613801     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.003866     Document Type: Article

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