Terrestrial Wireless Optical Communication

Preface

There has been an unprecedented growth in the deployment of communication systems in last decade driven by the increasing demand of bandwidth and ubiquitous connectivity for data and other multimedia rich applications. Wireless communication is one of the most vibrant research areas for meeting these demands. The heterogeneous next generation communication systems are expected to have all hybrid technologies from satellite, fiber, copper, RF and Optical Wireless. Optical Wireless or Free Space Optics (FSO) has multi-gigabit bandwidth, and can provide cost effective and transparent network interoperability and expandability. FSO enables optical transmission speeds which are not possible using existing fixed wireless RF technology and obviates ...