Abstract
Free-space optical communications provide higher security and wider bandwidth than is currently available in the microwave band. However, refractive index fluctuations along the atmospheric path scatter and attenuate the optical beam and introduce intensity noise ("scintillation") on millisecond time scales. We present new results from the University of Canberra / RMIT / Monash University / Canberra Institute of Technology Free-Space Optical Communications Test Bed obtained over atmospheric paths with lengths between 4 and 26 km. These results include statistical analyses of long-path scintillation in the amplitude, time and frequency domains.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Symposium Proceedings: URSI Comm. F Triennium Symposium |
| Editors | David Noon |
| Place of Publication | Australia |
| Publisher | URSI Commission F Triennium Open Symposium |
| Pages | 44-48 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 06464342303 |
| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
| Event | URSI Commission F Triennium Open Symposium - Great Barrier Reef, Cairns, Australia Duration: 1 Jun 2004 → 4 Jun 2004 |
Conference
| Conference | URSI Commission F Triennium Open Symposium |
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| Country/Territory | Australia |
| City | Cairns |
| Period | 1/06/04 → 4/06/04 |