• DocumentCode
    2239942
  • Title

    Terrestrial free-space optical links with temporal diversity

  • Author

    Popoola, W.O. ; Ghassemlooy, Z. ; Leitgeb, E. ; Ahmadi, V.

  • Author_Institution
    Opt. Commun. Res. Group, Northumbria Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    21-23 July 2010
  • Firstpage
    598
  • Lastpage
    603
  • Abstract
    In this work, the performance of subcarrier intensity modulated terrestrial free-space optical communication link is analysed in the presence of noise and atmospheric turbulence induced fading. To ameliorate channel fading we propose subcarrier time delay diversity (TDD) in which delayed versions of the original data are retransmitted on different subcarriers. The most efficient TDD is obtained with single re-transmission with an estimated gain of up to 4.5 dB in weak turbulence.
  • Keywords
    atmospheric turbulence; fading channels; optical links; ameliorate channel fading; atmospheric turbulence; gain 4.5 dB; noise; subcarrier intensity modulated terrestrial free-space optical communication link; temporal diversity; time delay diversity; Bit error rate; Fading; Gain; Noise; Optical receivers; Sensitivity; Free-space optics; retransmission; subcarrier multiplexing; time delay diversity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), 2010 7th International Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Newcastle upon Tyne
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8858-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-86135-369-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5580363