Title

Measurements Of Aperture Averaging On Bit-Error-Rate

Keywords

Atmospheric turbulence; BER; Bit error rates; FSO; Lasercom; NRZ; OOK; Scintillation index; Signal-to-noise ratio

Abstract

We report on measurements made at the Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) runway at Kennedy Space Center of receiver aperture averaging effects on a propagating optical Gaussian beam wave over a propagation path of 1,000 m. A commercially available instrument with both transmit and receive apertures was used to transmit a modulated laser beam operating at 1550 nm through a transmit aperture of 2.54 cm. An identical model of the same instrument was used as a receiver with a single aperture that was varied in size up to 20 cm to measure the effect of receiver aperture averaging on Bit Error Rate. Simultaneous measurements were also made with a scintillometer instrument and local weather station instruments to characterize atmospheric conditions along the propagation path during the experiments.

Publication Date

12-1-2005

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

5891

Number of Pages

1-12

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.619459

Socpus ID

29344461484 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/29344461484

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