Feasibility of retroreflective transdermal optical wireless communication

Applied Optics

Volumn 51, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 4232-4239

  Gil, Yotam ^a   Rotter, Nadav ^a   Arnon, Shlomi ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; RADIO COMMUNICATION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMMUNICATION SOLUTIONS; EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE; HIGH DATA RATE COMMUNICATIONS; LOW ENERGY CONSUMPTION; MODULATING RETRO-REFLECTORS; NEXT GENERATION SYSTEMS; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; ULTRA-LOW POWER CONSUMPTION;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHICKEN; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; SKIN; TELEMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ANIMALS; CHICKENS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SKIN; TELEMETRY; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84863742406     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.51.004232     Document Type: Article

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