Measurement of scintillation and link margin for the terralink™ laser communication system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3232, Issue , 1998, Pages 100-118

  Kim, Isaac I ^a   Koontz, Joseph ^a   Hakakha, Harel ^a   Adhikari, Prasanna ^a   Stieger, Ron ^a   Moursund, Carter ^a   Barclay, Micah ^a   Stanford, Alyssa ^a   Ruigrok, Richard ^a   Schuster, John ^a   Korevaar, Eric ^a  

^a AstroTerra Corp   (United States)

Author keywords

Fade margin; Infrared; Laser communications; Lasercom; Link budget; Link margin; Scintillation; TerraLink

Indexed keywords

FADE MARGIN; INFRARED; LASER COMMUNICATIONS; LASERCOM; LINK BUDGET; LINK MARGIN; TERRALINK;

BIT ERROR RATE; BUDGET CONTROL; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT; INTEGRATED OPTICS; LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MILLIMETER WAVES; OPTICAL LINKS; SCINTILLATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DATA COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT;

EID: 58849097579     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.301021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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