Estimation of free space optics systems availability based on meteorological visibility

Author

Prokes, Ales ; Skorpil, Vladislav

Author_Institution

Dept. of Radio Electron., Brno Univ. of Technol., Brno, Czech Republic

fYear

2009

fDate

10-11 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A number of phenomena in the atmosphere such as scattering, absorption and turbulence can cause large variation in laser beam attenuation. The influence of absorption and turbulence can in some cases be significantly reduced by an appropriate design of free space optics (FSO) systems. Thus, in a typical continental area, where rain, snow or fog occur, scattering is the most important phenomenon causing power losses. Attenuation due to scattering can be expressed as a function of the link distance, wavelength and meteorological visibility. The paper deals with the estimation of FSO availability based on statistical evaluation of visibility data collected at several airports in Europe. The availability is evaluated in dependence on link distance, wavelength and power link margin.

Keywords

atmospheric light propagation; atmospheric turbulence; meteorology; optical links; statistical analysis; atmospheric absorption; atmospheric scattering; atmospheric turbulence; free space optics systems; laser beam attenuation; link distance; meteorological visibility; power link margin; power losses; statistical evaluation; Absorption; Atmosphere; Laser beams; Meteorology; Optical attenuators; Optical design; Optical losses; Optical scattering; Rain; Snow; FSO; atmospheric attenuation; link availability; meteorological visibility; scattering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2009. LATINCOM '09. IEEE Latin-American Conference on

Conference_Location

Medellin

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4387-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4388-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LATINCOM.2009.5305266

Filename

5305266