Ultraviolet communications: Potential and state-of-the-art

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 67-73

  Xu, Zhengyuan ^a   Sadler, Brian M ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Light emitting diodes; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical scattering; Optical sensors

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RECEIVERS; OPTICAL SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

OPTICAL SCATTERING; SOLAR BLIND ULTRAVIOLET FILTERS;

ULTRAVIOLET DEVICES;

EID: 44449094046     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2008.4511651     Document Type: Article

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