Capacity of coherent free-space optical links using diversity-combining techniques

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12601-12611

  Belmonte, Aniceto ^a   Kahn, Joseph M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; EFFICIENCY; FADING CHANNELS; FREQUENCY SHIFT KEYING; OPTICAL LINKS; SCINTILLATION; SHOT NOISE;

AMPLITUDE FLUCTUATIONS; DETECTION EFFICIENCY; DIVERSITY COMBINING TECHNIQUE; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL LINK; INFORMATION-BEARING SIGNALS; MAXIMAL RATIO COMBINING (MRC); SPECTRAL EFFICIENCIES; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE;

SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

EID: 67749088348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012601     Document Type: Article

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