Performance of short-range non-line-of-sight LED-based ultraviolet communication receivers

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 12226-12238

  He, Qunfeng ^a   Xu, Zhengyuan ^a   Sadler, Brian M ^b  

^a University of California   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES;

BIT ERROR RATE PERFORMANCE; CHANNEL PARAMETER; COMMUNICATION PERFORMANCE; COMMUNICATION RECEIVERS; LINE-OF-SIGHT; MODULATION FORMATS; NON-LINE-OF-SIGHT; PATH LOSS MODELS; SEMI-ANALYTICAL; SYSTEM DESIGN; TWO-PART SERIES;

BIT ERROR RATE;

EID: 77953607341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.012226     Document Type: Article

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