Design of an optical photon counting array receiver system for deep-space communications

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 95, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2059-2069

  Mendenhall, Jeffrey A ^a   Candell, Lawrence M ^a   Hopman, Pablo I ^a   Zogbi, George ^a   Boroson, Don M ^a   Caplan, David O ^a   Digenis, Constantine J ^a   Hearn, David R ^a   Shoup, Ryan C ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep space optical communications; Distributed receive array; Photon counting

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; EARTH (PLANET); OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS;

DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS; DEEP SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; DISTRIBUTED RECEIVE ARRAY; FREE SPACE LASER COMMUNICATIONS; MARS LASER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS; PHOTON COUNTING; PHOTON COUNTING RECEIVERS;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 41149093212     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2007.905098     Document Type: Article

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