Journal of Optical Networking
Published by The Optical Society of America

Virtual Feature Issue

Optical Wireless Communications (OWC)


Editors

Shlomi Arnon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
David M. Britz, PTSM AT&T Research
Anthony C. Boucouvalas, Bournemouth University
Mohsen Kavehrad, The Pennsylvania State University


Introduction

Optical wireless communications: introduction to the feature issue

  • Shlomi Arnon, David M. Britz, Anthony C. Boucouvalas, and Mohsen Kavehrad
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 79-81 [full text: PDF (23 KB)]
  • published 01/11/2006

Research Papers

Channel modeling for optical wireless communication through dense fog

  • Urachada Ketprom, Sermsak Jaruwatanadilok, Yasuo Kuga, Akira Ishimaru, and James Ritcey
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 6, pp. 291-299 [full text: PDF (235 KB)]
  • published 05/17/2005

Trends in satellite communications and the role of optical free-space communications [Invited]

  • Morio Toyoshima
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 6, pp. 300-311 [full text: PDF (283 KB)]
  • published 05/17/2005

Optical wireless communications within fourth-generation wireless systems [Invited]

  • Dominic O'Brien and Marcos Katz
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 6, pp. 312-322 [full text: PDF (215 KB)]
  • published 05/24/2005

Optimizing IrDA throughput by including processing time with physical layer consideration

  • Pi Huang, P. Chatzimisios, and A. Boucouvalas
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 6, pp. 323-331 [full text: PDF (117 KB)]
  • published 05/27/2005

Availability-differentiated service provisioning in free-space optical access networks

  • Xi Yang
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 7, pp. 391-399 [full text: PDF (227 KB)]
  • published 06/29/2005

Self-organizing broadband hybrid wireless networks

  • Stuart Milner, Aniket Desai, Tzung-Hsien Ho, Jaime Llorca, Sugianto Trisno, and Christopher Davis
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 7, pp. 446-459 [full text: PDF (174 KB)]
  • published 07/01/2005

Aperture averaging for optimizing receiver design and system performance on free-space optical communication links

  • Heba Yuksel, Stuart Milner, and Christopher Davis
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 8, pp. 462-475 [full text: PDF (343 KB)]
  • published 07/08/2005

Ultimate channel capacity of free-space optical communications [Invited]

  • Jeffrey Shapiro, Saikat Guha, and Baris Erkmen
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 8, pp. 501-516 [full text: PDF (313 KB)]
  • published 07/22/2005

Satellite-based quantum communication terminal employing state-of-the-art technology

  • Martin Pfennigbauer, Markus Aspelmeyer, Walter Leeb, Guy Baister, Thomas Dreischer, Thomas Jennewein, Gregor Neckamm, Josep Perdigues, Harald Weinfurter, and Anton Zeilinger
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 9, pp. 549-560 [full text: PDF (463 KB)]
  • published 08/17/2005

Entangled and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) free-space photon quantum communication [Invited]

  • Ronald Meyers and Keith Deacon
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 9, pp. 573-584 [full text: PDF (131 KB)]
  • published 08/23/2005

Shannon capacities and error-correction codes for optical atmospheric turbulent channels

  • Jaime Anguita, Ivan Djordjevic, Mark Neifeld, and Bane Vasic
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 9, pp. 586-601 [full text: PDF (293 KB)]
  • published 08/24/2005

Arbitrary waveform synthesis for communication applications

  • B. Hamzeh, S. Jivkova, and Mohsen Kavehrad
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 10, pp. 647-656 [full text: PDF (1400 KB)]
  • published 09/17/2005

Optical wireless links with enhanced linearity and selectivity [Invited]

  • Roger Green, C. Sweet, and S. Idrus
  • Journal of Optical Networking, Vol. 4, Issue 10, pp. 671-684 [full text: PDF (329 KB)]
  • published 09/29/2005