Fading reduction by aperture averaging and spatial diversity in optical wireless systems

Journal of Optical Communications and Networking

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 580-593

  Khalighi, Mohammad Ali ^a   Schwartz, Noah ^b   Aitamer, Naziha ^a   Bourennane, Salah ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales   (France)

Author keywords

Aperture averaging; Atmospheric turbulence; Free space optics; Spatial diversity

Indexed keywords

APERTURE AVERAGING; APERTURE SYSTEM; AVERAGE BIT-ERROR RATES; BACKGROUND NOISE; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; FREE SPACE OPTICS; LARGE APERTURE; MULTIPLE APERTURES; OPTICAL WIRELESS SYSTEMS; OUTAGE CAPACITY; PERFORMANCE DEGRADATION; PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS; PRACTICAL ISSUES; SINGLE APERTURE; SPATIAL DIVERSITY; STRONG TURBULENCE; SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION; TIME DIVERSITY; TURBULENCE CONDITIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BIT ERROR RATE; CHANNEL CODING; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; TURBOMACHINERY;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

EID: 70749144473     PISSN: 19430620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOCN.1.000580     Document Type: Article

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