An introduction to free-space optical communications

Radioengineering

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 203-212

  Henniger, Hennes ^a   Wilfert, Otakar ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Fading; Free space optical communications; Link budget; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956285648     PISSN: 12102512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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