Optical wavelengths comparison for different weather conditions

Author

Nadeem, F. ; Leitgeb, E. ; Awan, M.S. ; Kandus, G.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2009

fDate

9-11 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

279

Lastpage

283

Abstract

Free space Optic (FSO) links have the tremendous potential to fulfil high data rate requirements of future communication applications. However, the widespread growth of FSO has been hampered by availability and reliability issues. FSO links are highly weather dependent and attenuating factor like fog, rain and snow causes reduced link availability for considerable amount of time. However different optical wavelengths suffer different attenuation. In this paper, the attenuation of different wavelengths FSO links has been analysed under different weather attenuating condition like fog, rain and snow. The attenuation analysis has been compared using measured attenuation data for some of the wavelengths.

Keywords

atmospheric optics; fog; meteorology; optical links; rain; snow; FSO links; attenuating factor; fog; free space optic links; optical wavelength comparison; rain; snow; weather attenuating condition; Attenuation; Availability; Biomedical optical imaging; High speed optical techniques; Optical attenuators; Rain; Snow; Space technology; Video on demand; Wireless communication; Availability; FSO; Fog; Rain; Simulation; Snow;

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.2009.5286365

Filename

5286365