Mutual alignment errors due to the variation of wave-front aberrations in a free-space laser communication link

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 592-602

  Toyoshima, Morio ^a   Takahashi, Nobuhiro ^a   Jono, Takashi ^a   Yamawaki, Toshihiko ^a   Nakagawa, Keizo ^a   Yamamoto, Akio ^a  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DESIGN; POLYNOMIALS; SENSORS;

FREE-SPACE LASER COMMUNICATIONS; LASER BEAM TRANSMISSION; WAVE-FRONT ABERRATIONS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 3242751284     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000592     Document Type: Article

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