LDORA: A novel laser communications receiver array architecture

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5338, Issue , 2004, Pages 56-64

  Boroson, Don M ^a   Bondurant, Roy S ^a   Murphy, Daniel V ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SCALABILITY; SPATIAL FILTERING;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; GEIGER COUNTERS; PHOTONS; TELESCOPES; TRANSMITTERS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 3543063529     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.543012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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