4km terrestrial line-of-sight optical free space link operating at 155Mbit/s

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2123, Issue , 1994, Pages 108-119

  Wisely, David R ^a   McCullagh, Michael J ^a   Eardley, Philip L ^a   Smyth, Peter P ^a   Luthra, Davinder ^b   De Miranda, Erasmus Couto ^b   Cole, Roy ^b  

^a MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL ENGINEERING;

ATMOSPHERIC ATTENUATION; FREE SPACES; HIGH-SPEED DATA; LINE OF SIGHT; POWER MARGINS;

OPTICAL LINKS;

EID: 85076532139     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.184641     Document Type: Conference Paper

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