Evaluation of the scintillation loss for optical communication systems with direct detection

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Perlot, Nicolas ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Channel coding; Free space optics; Intensity modulation and direct detection (IM DD) systems; Long term BER; Scintillation loss; Short term bit error rate (BER)

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CODING; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LIGHT MODULATION; SCINTILLATION;

DIRECT DETECTION (DD) SYSTEM; FREE-SPACE OPTICS; INTENSITY MODULATION (IM) SYSTEM; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 34447095056     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2436866     Document Type: Article

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