Estimation of the power scintillation probability density function in free-space optical links by use of multicanonical Monte Carlo sampling

Optics Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 21, 2006, Pages 3077-3079

  Kamalakis, T ^a   Sphicopoulos, T ^a   Sheikh Muhammad, S ^b   Leitgeb, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE-SPACE OPTICS (FSO); MONTE CARLO SAMPLING; PHASE SCREEN METHOD; WIRELESS CONNECTIONS;

BANDWIDTH; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SCINTILLATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 33751306354     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.31.003077     Document Type: Article

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