Link analysis of Mars-Earth optical communications system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5338, Issue , 2004, Pages 143-150

  Khatri, F I ^a   Boroson, D M ^a   Murphy, D V ^a   Sharma, J ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Link analysis; Photon counting; PPM

Indexed keywords

LINK ANALYSIS; LINK DESIGNS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PHOTON-COUNTING;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; BANDWIDTH; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION LINKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; ORBITS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 3543141843     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.543009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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