Demonstration of a high-efficiency free-space optical communications link

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7199, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Birnbaum, Kevin ^a   Farr, William ^a   Gin, Jonathan ^a   Moision, Bruce ^a   Quirk, Kevin ^a   Wright, Malcolm ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical Communications; Pulse position modulation

Indexed keywords

CODE DECODERS; COMPONENT SYSTEMS; END-TO-END COMMUNICATION; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL LINK; HIGH EFFICIENCY; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; REAL-TIME DATA; RECENT PROGRESS;

COMMUNICATION; ERROR CORRECTION; LASERS; MODULATION; OPTICAL LINKS; PHOTONICS; POWER CONTROL; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; TEST FACILITIES;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 65649121618     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.809720     Document Type: Conference Paper

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