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Field Of View (FOV)

The Field Of View (FOV) is the actual observable area of an optical system like the human eye or a camera.…

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Conformal VLC Receivers with Photodetector Arrays

At the University of Central Florida (UCF), Pooya Nabavi and Murat Yuksei have designed and prototyped a wide field-of-view (FOV) optical…

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InterSymbol Interference

InterSymbol Interference (ISI) is a kind of distortion that occurs when one or more symbols (pulses in digital baseband transmission) interfere…

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GEODSS System

The Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance (GEODSS) System is a series of space-observing ground stations in the United States and the…

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FSO Underwater

Free-space optical communications are typically performed in free space, such as air and vacuum, due to the high transmissivity of both…

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Phased Arrays

Overview A phased array is an array of antennas that can have their beam path steered without physically moving the antennas.…

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Modulation Schemes

The following is a list of modulation schemes used in FSO and satcom along with a descriptor of each scheme and…

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Elastic Optical Networks (EONs)

Elastic optical networks (EONs) are an application of wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) that operates using very small spacings between transmittable frequencies,…

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Optical Wireless Communications (OWC)

Overview Optical wireless communications (OWC) is an umbrella term describing any optical communication technology that does not require a hard-wired link…

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Atmospheric Interference

[read more and participate on our wiki article here: https://wiki.pathfinderdigital.com/wiki/atmospheric-interference/ ] Overview Atmosphere is the transmission medium for an FSO link. Like…

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