National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
National Aeronautics and
Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California
Contents Preface
Quantum Detection Theory for the
Free-Space Channel
V. Vilnrotter and C.-W. Lau
A New Entropy Coding Technique for Data Compression
A. B. Kiely and M. Klimesh
Memory-Efficient Recursive Interleaved Entropy Coding
A. B. Kiely and M. Klimesh
Further Results on a Reduced-Complexity, Highly
Power-/Bandwidth-Efficient Coded Feher-Patented Quadrature-Phase-Shift-Keying
System with Iterative Decoding
M. K. Simon and D. Divsalar
Laboratory Characterization of Silicon Avalanche
Photodiodes (APDs) for Pulse-Position
Modulation (PPM) Detection
M. Srinivasan, J. Hamkins, B. Madden-Woods, A. Biswas, and
J. Beebe
Radio Frequency Fields in Multiple-Cavity Masers
J. Shell
Analysis of a Thick Dichroic Plate with
Arbitrarily Shaped Holes
W. A. Imbriale
Design and Analysis of Landing Trajectories
and Low-Altitude Asteroid Flyovers
D. J. Scheeres
Orbit Determination Uncertainty Distributions and
Mappings in an Unstable Halo Orbit
D. J. Scheeres, D. Han, and Y. Hou
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR)
Navigation Using Altimeter
Range Observations
J. J. Bordi, J. K. Miller, B. G. Williams, and F. J. Pelletier
The research described in this publication was carried out by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, service, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement by the United States Government or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.