Ultimate Limits on Photon and Spectral Efficient Communication through Atmospheric Turbulence

• Main Authors: Shapiro, Jeffrey H. (Contributor), Chandrasekaran, Nivedita (Contributor), Wang, Ligong (Contributor)
• Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics (Contributor)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Optical Society of America, 2015-02-13T15:58:19Z.
• Subjects: Article
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Bounds on the ergodic classical and private capacities for optical communication through turbulence are presented, showing that high photon and spectral efficiencies can be achieved simultaneously in the near-field power transfer regime.
National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF IGERT program)
United States. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA Information in a Photon Program)
United States. Office of Naval Research (Basic Research Challenge Program)