Study of the transmitter antenna gain for intersatellite laser communications

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Sun, Jianfeng ^a   Liu, Liren ^a   Yun, Maojin ^b   Wan, Lingyu ^a  

^a SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF OPTICS AND FINE MECHANICS   (China)

^b QINGDAO UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aberrations; Antenna gain; Diffraction; Intersatellite laser communication

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; AIRBORNE TELESCOPES; ANTENNAS; DIFFRACTION; GAIN MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INTERSATELLITE LASER COMMUNICATIONS; OPTICAL LAYOUT METHOD; SCALAR DIFFRACTION THEORY; TRANSMITTER ANTENNA GAIN;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 33748631608     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2205871     Document Type: Article

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