Title

Fade Statistics For Gnussian Beam Waves In Moderate-To-Strong Turbulence

Abstract

The performance of lasercom systems operating in the atmosphere is reduced by optical turbulence, which causes irradiance fluctuations in the received signal. The result is a randomly fading signal. In this work, fade statistics obtained from experimental data were compared to theoretical predictions based on the lognormal and gamma-gamma distributions. The probability of fade and expected number of fades per second were calculated from the irradiance fluctuations of a Gaussian beam wave propagating through the atmosphere on a horizontal path, near ground, in the moderate-to-strong turbulence regime. Irradiance data was collected simultaneously at three receiving apertures of different size. Atmospheric parameters were inferred from the measurements and used to calculate the parameters for the theoretical distributions. A new integral expression for the expected number of fades based on the gamma-gamma distribution was developed and shown to make a significant difference compared to the existing approximation.

Publication Date

12-1-2006

Publication Title

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

6399

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.693037

Socpus ID

33846247902 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33846247902

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