Free-space optical communication through atmospheric turbulence channels

By Xiaoming Zhu, Joseph M. Kahn. IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2002

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Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Visible Light Communication: Concepts, Applications and Challenges (2019, methodology): “Applications using such nomenclature tend to be very complex, dealing with atmospheric turbulences [45], [46] and high-cost equipment [47].”
BPSK Subcarrier Intensity Modulated Free-Space Optical Communications in Atmospheric Turbulence (2009, methodology): “Although an on-off keying (OOK) intensity modulated based FSO link is widely reported, its major challenge lies in the fact that it requires adaptive threshold to perform optimally in atmospheric turbulence condition [8], [10], [14].”
Adaptive-optics-based simultaneous pre- and post-turbulence compensation of multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams in a bidirectional free-space optical link (2014, methodology): “The effects of turbulence are emulated by a rotatable thin phase screen plate, with a pseudo-random phase distribution obeying Kolmogorov spectrum statistics, and characterized by its effective Fried coherence length r0 [27–29].”
Pointing Error Effects on Free-Space Optical Communication Links in the Presence of Atmospheric Turbulence (2009, background): “For a given , if the received signal flux is , then the electrical signal is , where is the optical-to-electrical conversion efficiency [1].”
Performance analysis of MIMO free-space optical systems in gamma-gamma fading (2009, background): “However, similar to the related literature [3], [13], [17], [21], in this paper, we assume a high–energy FSO system whose performance is limited by background radiation and thermal noise such that the Gaussian approximation is applicable.”
BER Performance of Free-Space Optical Transmission with Spatial Diversity (2007, methodology): “We assume high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime where we can use Gaussian noise model 2 [8].”
Relay-Assisted Free-Space Optical Communication (2007, methodology): “We model turbulence-induced fading by log-normal distribution [2], [5]-[9] which is commonly used to model weak turbulence conditions.”
Optical wireless links with spatial diversity over strong atmospheric turbulence channels (2009, background): “The average electrical SNR is defined as, (2)μmn = (ηE [Imn]) 2 /N0[22].”
Outage Capacity Optimization for Free-Space Optical Links With Pointing Errors (2007, methodology): “…11/6 ≈ σ 2 R 4 where C 2 n (L) is the index of refraction structure parameter at altitude L (assumed to be constant along the propagation path), k = 2π/λ is the optical wavenumber, z is the propagation distance, and σ 2 R is the Rytov variance defined as [2], [14] σ 2 R = 1.23 C 2 n k 7/6 z 11/6 .”
A Unifying Statistical Model for Atmospheric Optical Scintillation (2011, background): “Perhaps the mos t successful models are the log-normal [2], the lognormalRician (or Beckmann model) [3] and the gamma-gamma [4].”