Terrestrial Free Space Optical Links for High Bandwidth Connectivity

Author

Muhammad, S Sheikh ; Kamalakis, T. ; Leitgeb, E. ; Koudelka, O. ; Kandus, G. ; Javornik, T.

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2005

fDate

24-25 Dec. 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Free space optics (FSO) is rapidly gaining popularity as an effective means of transferring data at high rates over short distances. Light beams propagating through the atmosphere carry the information from the optical transmitter to the receiver. FSO facilitates rapidly deployable, lightweight, high-bandwidth communication without licensing fee and tariffs. We present FSO system and network concepts, modeling of the terrestrial (near ground) channel, modulation and channel coding aspects and investigations in estimating the probability density function

Keywords

channel coding; optical communication; optical links; high bandwidth connectivity; optical receiver; optical transmitter; probability density function; terrestrial free space optical links; Atmosphere; Atmospheric modeling; Bandwidth; Channel coding; Licenses; Modulation coding; Optical fiber communication; Optical propagation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Channel Coding; FSO channel modeling; Free Space Optics (FSO); Modulation; Probability Density Function (PDF);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

9th International Multitopic Conference, IEEE INMIC 2005

Conference_Location

Karachi

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9429-1

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9430-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INMIC.2005.334397

Filename

4133412