Enlargement of beam coverage in FSO mobile network

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1583-1589

  Zhou, Dayong ^a   Lopresti, Peter G ^b   Refai, Hazem H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b The University of Tulsa Tulsa   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiber bundle; free space optics (FSO); misalignment; PAT

Indexed keywords

BEAM DIVERGENCE; BEAM-STEERING; CONTINUOUS BEAMS; FIBER BUNDLES; FIBER LENS; FREE SPACE OPTICS; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; MECHANICAL DEVICE; MISALIGNMENT; MOBILE NETWORKS; PAT; POINTING , ACQUISITION AND TRACKING; TRANSMISSION PERFORMANCE; UP TIME;

ALIGNMENT; ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; LENSES; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL LINKS; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

FIBERS;

EID: 79955978436     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2134069     Document Type: Article

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