Multihop free-space optical communications over turbulence channels with pointing errors using heterodyne detection

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2597-2604

  Tang, Xuan ^a   Wang, Zhaocheng ^a   Xu, Zhengyuan ^b   Ghassemlooy, Zabih ^c  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atmospheric turbulence (AT); average symbol error rate (ASER); heterodyne detection; multihop free space optical (FSO); outage probability (OP); pointing errors

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE; FADING CHANNELS; HETERODYNING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL ENCODING; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

AVERAGE SYMBOL ERROR RATE (SER); FREE-SPACE OPTICAL; HETERODYNE DETECTION; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; POINTING ERRORS;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84904302930     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2014.2330594     Document Type: Article

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