Backscatter suppression for underwater modulating retroreflector links using polarization discrimination

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 328-337

  Mullen, Linda ^a   Cochenour, Brandon ^a   Rabinovich, William ^b   Mahon, Rita ^b   Muth, John ^c  

^a NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS;

FREE-SPACE OPTICAL LINK; HIGH BANDWIDTH; LINK PERFORMANCE; LOW PROBABILITY OF DETECTIONS; MODULATING RETRO-REFLECTORS; POLARIZATION DISCRIMINATION; RETRO-REFLECTING; UNDERWATER ENVIRONMENTS;

LIGHT MODULATION;

EID: 60849130713     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000328     Document Type: Article

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