Air-to-ground lasercom system demonstration design overview and results summary

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7814, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Walther, Frederick G ^a   Michael, Steven ^a   Parenti, Ronald R ^a   Taylor, John A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; Diversity; Field demonstration; Forward error correction; Free space optical communications; Interleaving; Optical scintillation; Pointing and tracking

Indexed keywords

DIVERSITY; FIELD DEMONSTRATION; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; INTERLEAVING; OPTICAL SCINTILLATION; POINTING AND TRACKING;

AIRCRAFT COMMUNICATION; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; COMMUNICATION; DEMONSTRATIONS; FORWARD ERROR CORRECTION; SCINTILLATION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 77958168372     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.864262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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