Characterization of fog attenuation in terrestrial free space optical links

Optical Engineering

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Muhammad, Sajid Sheikh ^a   Flecker, Benno ^a   Leitgeb, Erich ^a   Gebhart, Michael ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b NXP SEMICONDUCTORS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fog; Free space optics (FSO); Terrestrial FSO links; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; FOG; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL LINKS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DATA RATES; FREE SPACE OPTICS;

SPACE OPTICS;

EID: 34548026092     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2749502     Document Type: Article

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