Fading-loss assessment in atmospheric free-space optical communication links with on-off keying

被引:50
作者
Giggenbach, Dirk [1 ]
Henniger, Hennes [1 ]
机构
[1] DLR, German Aerosp Ctr, Inst Commun & Navigat, D-82230 Wessling, Germany
关键词
fading loss; free-space optics; link budget; aperture averaging;
D O I
10.1117/1.2903095
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Link-budget calculations are a common way to assess system parameters, such as the required transmitter power and receiver sensitivity, in free-space optical (FSO) communication systems. One of the biggest challenges for long-range FSO deployment is its signal propagation under turbulent atmospheric conditions, which produce intensity fluctuations. Methods to estimate atmospheric-fading loss in radio-frequency systems cannot be adapted to the FSO channel. Until now no general closed-form methods have been developed to describe the fading loss in such a channel. A method to calculate the losses due to scintillation fading in the threshold approach, based on lognormal statistics of the received power, is presented. (C) 2008 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
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