… with the experimental results presented in this paper, strongly suggest that a multi-aperture
coherent receiver approach should be considered for future ground stations. …

… Multi-aperture receiver with optical combining architecture is an effective approach to …
performance of the free-space optical (FSO) communications, in which how to combine the multiple …

… : Digital coherent combining (DCC) technique can increase the free space optical signal
collection area by combining the signals received by an array of small apertures in a coherent …

… digital coherent receivers enable the coherent combining (ie, full-… a multi-aperture system
architecture for free-space optical communication that uses digital-domain coherent combining …

… Multi-aperture receiver with digital combining architecture is … free-space optical (FSO)
communication. In this paper, a blind digital combining algorithm for coherent FSO communication …

… ABSTRACT In free space optical communication systems, multi-aperture coherent optical
receivers based on digital coherent beam combining (D-CBC) technique can provide …

… input into the coherent receiver by multiple receiving antennas. Different versions of the
free-space optical signal detected by the parallel digital coherent receivers share a common …

… with MRC and equal gain combining (EGC) receptions. In [12], [13], an optical ground
terminal receiver architecture based on multi-aperture digital coherent combining has been …

… channels and the combined signal. We report on the benefit of the multi-aperture combining
technique under atmospheric turbulence with the analysis of the received optical power and …

… impairs free space optical (FSO) communication. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate
a proof-of-concept FSO communication receiver … For multi-aperture (MA) receivers, the input …