BER performance of FSO links over strong atmospheric turbulence channels with pointing errors

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 44-46

  Sandalidis, Harilaos G ^a   Tsiftsis, Theodoros A ^b   Karagiannidis, George K ^b   Uysal, Murat ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL GREECE   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bit error rate (BER); Free space optical (FSO) communications; K atmorpheric turbulence channel; Misalignment fading; Pointing error

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); FADING CHANNELS; NUMERICAL METHODS;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE CHANNELS; CLOSED-FORM EXPRESSION; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL (FSO); MISALIGNMENT FADING; POINTING ERROR;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 39549102187     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2008.071408     Document Type: Article

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