Characterization of the beam-spread function for underwater wireless optical communications links

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 513-521

  Cochenour, Brandon M ^a   Mullen, Linda J ^a   Laux, Allan E ^a  

^a NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Underwater optical communications

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DEPENDENCE; BEAM ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMIC NATURE; HIGH BANDWIDTH; INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LINK LOSS; OPTICAL BEAMS; OPTICAL SIGNALS; PERFORMANCE PREDICTION; POINTING AND TRACKING; RECEIVED SIGNALS; SCATTERED LIGHT; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPATIAL SPREADING; UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION; UNDERWATER OPTICAL COMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL LINKS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONICS; SCATTERING;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 66549090377     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2008.2005341     Document Type: Article

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