On the capacity of free-space optical intensity channels

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4449-4461

  Lapidoth, Amos ^a   Moser, Stefan M ^b   Wigger, Michèle A ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Channel capacity; Direct detection; Gaussian noise; Infrared communication; Optical communication; Pulse amplitude modulation (PAM)

Indexed keywords

ADDITIVE WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE; AVERAGE POWER; DIRECT DETECTION; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; GAUSSIAN NOISE; INFRARED COMMUNICATION; LOWER BOUNDS; OPTICAL INTENSITIES; PEAK POWER; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE; CHANNEL CAPACITY; COMMUNICATION; CONTROL THEORY; FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); PHOTONICS; PNEUMATIC DRIVES; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; WHITE NOISE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 70349614172     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2009.2027522     Document Type: Article

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