Recent Advances of UAV Airborne Optical Wireless Communications

Jupeng Ding; Chih-Lin I; Jintao Wang; Yaping Li; Zhijun Zhang; Peng Xie; Xuerang Guo; Xifeng Chen

doi:10.3788/LOP57.230003

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