Analysis of atmospheric conditions for optimizing optical communications

Mohamed Baghdady; Samuel N. Mellon; Robert A. Younts; Francisco P. Aberg Cobo

doi:10.1117/12.2633498

30 September 2022 Analysis of atmospheric conditions for optimizing optical communications

Mohamed Baghdady, Samuel N. Mellon, Robert A. Younts, Francisco P. Aberg Cobo

Proceedings Volume 12237, Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans XI; 122370M (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633498
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2022, San Diego, California, United States

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Free space optical communications are highly dependent on atmospheric conditions to ensure successful transmission from transmitter to receiver. The integrity of an optical communications link can degrade depending on the atmospheric conditions during propagation. This reduced signal strength of an optical communications link can be directly associated with atmospheric conditions that cause scattering, absorption, and optical turbulence. Our main goal is to characterize the atmosphere for modeling and analysis of atmospheric conditions for optimizing optical communications in a coastal environment. Instruments including an anemometer, scintillometer, and a weather station hub collected local atmospheric and weather data. These data generated plots describing temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, pressure, and path averaged scintillation index throughout the seasons. We began analyzing the path averaged scintillation index against the other data points to identify trends and correlations in the path averaged scintillation index and how it is affected by the other atmospheric conditions.

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Mohamed Baghdady, Samuel N. Mellon, Robert A. Younts, and Francisco P. Aberg Cobo "Analysis of atmospheric conditions for optimizing optical communications", Proc. SPIE 12237, Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans XI, 122370M (30 September 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2633498

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