Use of a partially coherent transmitter beam to improve the statistics of received power in a free-space optical communication system: Theory and experimental results

Optical Engineering

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Drexler, Kyle ^a   Roggemann, Michael ^a   Voelz, David ^b  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

experiments; liquid crystal; partially coherent; reduce; scintillation; spatial light modulators; speckle; turbulence

Indexed keywords

COHERENT BEAMS; COHERENT SOURCES; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; MEAN INTENSITY; PARTIALLY COHERENT; RANGE FREE; RECEIVED POWER; REDUCE; SCINTILLATION INDEX; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPATIAL LIGHT MODULATORS; TRANSMITTED BEAMS; TURBULENCE STRENGTH;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTS; LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT MODULATORS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SCINTILLATION; SPECKLE; TURBULENCE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 79551678399     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3533737     Document Type: Article

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