Diversity coherent receivers for optical communication over the clear turbulent atmosphere

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 2485-2492

  Lee, Etty J ^a   Chan, Vincent W S ^a  

^a IEEE

Author keywords

Atmospheric optical communication; Coherent detection; Diversity; Free space optical; Heterodyne; Homodyne

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; PHOTODETECTORS; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS; TURBULENCE MODELS;

AIR TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERIC OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; COHERENT DETECTION; INCOHERENT DETECTION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 38549162362     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2007.411     Document Type: Conference Paper

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