Coherent free-space optical communications in lognormal-rician turbulence

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1872-1875

  Yang, Fan ^a   Cheng, Julian ^b  

^a SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coherent free space optical communications; lognormal Rician turbulence channels; Pade approximation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMANTS; ASYMPTOTIC ERROR RATES; BER EXPRESSION; CLOSED FORM; DIFFERENTIAL PHASE-SHIFT KEYING; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; LOGNORMAL-RICIAN TURBULENCE CHANNELS; MAXIMUM RATIO COMBINING; PADE APPROXIMATION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84870572728     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2012.100812.121341     Document Type: Article

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