Title

Free Space Optical Communication Link And Atmospheric Effects: Single Aperture And Arrays

Keywords

Atmospheric optics; Laser communications; Optical wave propagation; Scintillation

Abstract

Free space optical (FSO) communication systems offer several advantages over conventional radio frequency (RF) systems but, because of shorter wavelength, are subject to various atmospheric effects. Particularly significant in this regard is the signal fading below a prescribed threshold value owing primarily to optical scintillations associated with the received signal. In this paper we utilize some recent advances in the modeling of optical scintillation under weak-to-strong fluctuations associated with terrestrial links and examine fade probability and bit error-rate (BER) for direct detection systems using a single large aperture receiver and the BER for an array of smaller receiver apertures.

Publication Date

8-16-2004

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

5338

Number of Pages

265-275

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.556737

Socpus ID

3543138341 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/3543138341

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