Route diversity analyses for free-space optical wireless links within turbulent scenarios

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 7641-7650

  Zvanovec, Stanislav ^a   Perez, Joaquin ^b   Ghassemlooy, Zabih ^b   Rajbhandari, Sujan ^c   Libich, Jiri ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CONSTANTS; OPTICS;

FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; LINK PERFORMANCE; MITIGATION TECHNIQUES; ROUTE DIVERSITY; SIGNAL RECEPTION; TURBULENCE FLOW; TURBULENT ENVIRONMENTS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84875692731     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.007641     Document Type: Article

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