Do we really need OSTBCs for free-space optical communication with direct detection?

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4445-4448

  Safari, Majid ^a   Uysal, Murat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Free space optical communication; Space time coding; Spatial diversity

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; ATMOSPHERICS; BLOCK CODES; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FADING (RADIO); FADING CHANNELS; INFORMATION THEORY; MODULATION; PHOTONICS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; SPACE TIME ADAPTIVE PROCESSING; TURBULENCE; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DIRECT DETECTIONS; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; FSO LINKS; FULL DIVERSITIES; INTENSITY MODULATION AND DIRECT DETECTIONS; OPTICAL-; ORTHOGONAL SPACES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSES; PERFORMANCE GAPS; REPETITION CODES; SPACE-TIME CODING; SPATIAL DIVERSITY; SPATIAL DIVERSITY TECHNIQUES; TIME BLOCK CODES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 57149128466     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2008.070637     Document Type: Article

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