Signal acquisition and timing for a free space laser communications receiver

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6457, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zogbi, George ^a   Candell, Lawrence M ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep space communications; Free space laser communications; Optical receiver; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

DEEP-SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; FREE-SPACE LASER COMMUNICATIONS; PHOTON COUNTING;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; DATA REDUCTION; NASA; OPTICAL LINKS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

OPTICAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 34247370162     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.699030     Document Type: Conference Paper

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