Free-space optical communication with nonzero boresight pointing errors

IEEE Transactions on Communications

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 713-725

  Yang, Fan ^a   Cheng, Julian ^a   Tsiftsis, Theodoros A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b University of Central Greece   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Free space optical communications; lognormal fading; pointing errors

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; FADING CHANNELS; JITTER; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; TURBULENCE;

ASYMPTOTIC ERROR RATES; ERROR RATE ANALYSIS; FREE SPACE OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; INTENSITY MODULATION AND DIRECT DETECTIONS; LOG-NORMAL FADING; POINTING ERRORS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF); STATISTICAL MODELING;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 84900634082     PISSN: 00906778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2014.010914.130249     Document Type: Article

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