Demonstration of high data rate wavelength division multiplexed transmission over a 150 km free space optical link

Proceedings - IEEE Military Communications Conference MILCOM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Young, David W ^a   Sluz, Joseph E ^a   Juarez, Juan C ^a   Airola, Marc B ^a   Sova, Raymond M ^a   Hurt, Harry ^a   Northcott, Malcolm ^b   Phillips, John ^b   McClaren, Andy ^b   Driver, Don ^b   Abelson, David ^b   Foshee, James ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AOptix Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

BER; Free space optical communication; Single mode fiber coupling; Turbulence compensation; Wavelength division multiplexing

Indexed keywords

40 GB/S; BIT ERRORS; COMMUNICATION LINK; DATA RATES; FRAME SYNCHRONIZATION; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL (FSO); HIGH DATA RATE (HDR); MAUNA LOA; MICRO PULSE LIDAR (MPL); MULTIPLE CONFIGURATIONS; PARALLEL PATH; RECEIVED POWER; RECORDING DATA; SCATTERING LOSSES; SINGLE CHANNEL (SC); WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXED (WDM);

DATA RECORDING; DATA TRANSFER; DATA TRANSFER RATES; ERROR ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS; MILITARY OPERATIONS; MULTIPLEXING; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL RADAR; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 48049109813     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MILCOM.2007.4454950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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