Discussion on design aspects for free-space optical communication terminals.

Free-space optical communications is an emerging solution to increase link capacity of nondetectable links to multi gigabits per second. FSO is widely believed as to overcome radio frequency spectrum and data rate limitations. However, one of the biggest challenges facing FSO deployment is its optic...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE Communications magazine 45, 10 (2007).
1. Verfasser:	Epple, Bernhard
Weitere Verfasser:	Henniger, Hennes
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Schlagworte:	Atmospheric turbulence. Data rate limitations. Free-space optical communication terminals. Intensity fluctuation. Laser beam phase-front. Link capacity. Link degradation. Nondetectable links. Optical signal propagation. Radio frequency spectrum. Refraction indices. Signal fading. Tracking errors. Transceiver alignment. Transmit beam.