Cloud attenuations for free-space optical links

Author

Awan, M.S. ; Marzuki ; Leitgeb, E. ; Hillbrand, B. ; Nadeem, F. ; Khan, M.S.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Broadband Commun., Graz Univ. of Technol., Graz, Austria

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

274

Lastpage

278

Abstract

Free-space Optics (FSO) or optical wireless offers huge unlicensed bandwidth and is able to deliver the required bandwidth needed in next ten years for the next generation networks (NGN). Moreover, an increasing number of military and commercial access systems rely critically on the propagation of optical energy through the atmospheric free-space. As a result the need for predictable estimates of optical attenuation in low visibility conditions is steadily increasing, especially for fog, rain, clouds and snowfall. Cloud attenuations are the least observed/measured in case of free-space optical wireless links. We investigate here the influence of cloud attenuations on the performance of optical wireless links.

Keywords

atmospheric light propagation; clouds; optical links; atmospheric free-space; cloud attenuations; commercial access systems; fog; free-space optical wireless links; low-visibility condition; military systems; next generation network; optical attenuation; optical energy propagation; rain; snowfall; Atmospheric measurements; Attenuation measurement; Bandwidth; Clouds; Next generation networking; Optical attenuators; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber networks; Optical propagation; Rain; Optical wireless; attenuation coefficient; clouds; drop size distribution (DSD); liquid water content; visibility range;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Satellite and Space Communications, 2009. IWSSC 2009. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Tuscany

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4384-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3559-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286364

Filename

5286364