Selection of modulation and codes for deep space optical communications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5338, Issue , 2004, Pages 123-130

  Hamkins, Jon ^a   Moision, Bruce ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity; Concatenated codes; Convolutional codes; Deep space communications; Error correcting codes; Optical communications; Pulse position modulation; Reed Solomon codes

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CONVOLUTION; ERROR CORRECTION; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; ITERATIVE METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; RECEPTION QUALITY; SIGNAL ENCODING; SPACE OPTICS;

CAPACITY; CONACATENATED CODES; DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; ERROR-CORRECTING CODES; REED-SOLOMON CODES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 3543063528     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.528434     Document Type: Conference Paper

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