Title :
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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IWSSC.2009.5286365
