Optical wireless transmitter employing discrete power level stepping

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1734-1743

  Fath, Thilo ^a,b   Heller, Christoph ^a   Haas, Harald ^b  

^a AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intensity modulation; non linearity; optical wireless communications; power efficiency; transmitter design

Indexed keywords

INTENSITY MODULATIONS; NON-LINEARITY; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; POWER EFFICIENCY; TRANSMITTER DESIGN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPACITY; OPTICAL TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84877776128     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2257984     Document Type: Article

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