Comparing the cloud attenuation for different optical wavelengths

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2009

fDate

19-20 Oct. 2009

Firstpage

482

Lastpage

486

Abstract

Free Space Optics (FSO) has the tremendous potential to provide multi-gigabits-per-second transmission links for future aerospace applications. However, the widespread growth of the technology is hampered by reduced availability issues related to weather influences on the link. Among different weather attenuations, clouds play an important role by causing link outage up to several hours. In this paper the cloud attenuations by different optical wavelengths are compared on the basis of Mie scattering theory so that the optical wavelengths having high immunity to cloud attenuations can be selected for optical wireless communication links.

Keywords

Mie scattering; atmospheric light propagation; clouds; meteorology; optical links; Mie scattering theory; cloud attenuation; free space optics; multi-gigabits-per-second transmission links; optical wavelengths; optical wireless communication links; weather; Biomedical optical imaging; Clouds; High speed optical techniques; Mie scattering; Optical attenuators; Optical propagation; Optical scattering; Space technology; Video on demand; Wireless communication; Cloud attenuation; FSO; Line of sight (LoS); Mie scattering; Optical Wavelengths;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies, 2009. ICET 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Islamabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5630-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5631-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICET.2009.5353121

Filename

5353121