Path loss modeling and performance trade-off study for short-range non-line-of-sight ultraviolet communications

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3929-3940

  Chen, Gang ^a   Xu, Zhengyuan ^a   Ding, Haipeng ^a   Sadler, Brian M ^b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; GEOMETRY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

BACKGROUND RADIATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEM PERFORMANCE; DETECTION PERFORMANCE; EMPIRICAL CHANNELS; PERFORMANCE TRADE-OFF; SINGLE SCATTERING; SINGLE-SCATTERING MODEL; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 61649091871     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003929     Document Type: Article

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