Capacity limits of spatially multiplexed free-space communication

Nature Photonics

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 822-826

  Zhao, Ningbo ^a   Li, Xiaoying ^a   Li, Guifang ^a,b   Kahn, Joseph M ^c  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; MIMO SYSTEMS;

FREE-SPACE COMMUNICATION; MULTI INPUT MULTI OUTPUT; MULTIPLEXING TECHNIQUES; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; RADIO FREQUENCIES; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS; SPATIAL MODE MULTIPLEXING;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84948649149     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2015.214     Document Type: Article

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