Multichannel high data rate transmission between ground and airborne platforms

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6457, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Young, David W ^a   Juarez, Juan C ^a   Sova, Raymond ^a   Sluz, Joseph ^a   Phillips, John ^b   Driver, Don ^b   McClarin, Andy ^b   Northcott, Malcolm ^b   Graves, J E ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AOptix Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Free space optical communications; Noise figure; Optical amplifier; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PLATFORMS; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; GROUND TERMINALS;

BASE STATIONS; DATA TRANSFER; ERROR CORRECTION; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; NOISE FIGURE; OPTICAL LINKS; SATELLITES; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34247331349     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701085     Document Type: Conference Paper

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