In a free-space optical communication system with an avalanche photodiode (APD) detector, the average bit error rate (ABER) is studied based on pulse position modulation (PPM) considering Gamma–Gamma atmospheric turbulence and fiber coupling efficiency (FCE). By analyzing the shot noise and thermal noise, the approximate analytical expression of the ABER of binary PPM is theoretically derived. Then, the approximate analytical expression of ABER union bound is derived for L-ary PPM. The FCE has a greater impact on the ABER of the APD detection system than it does on the PIN detection system. By adopting the adaptive optics technology, compared with the PIN detection system, the communication performance of the APD detection is greatly improved. Moreover, the optimal average APD gain of the APD detection system is strongly correlated to the detector temperature but weakly dependent on the atmospheric turbulence intensity, FCE, number of wavefront compensation terms, average received photon number, and receiving aperture size. By optimizing the receiving aperture and designing an accurate temperature control system, the communication performance of the APD detection system can be further improved.
Atmospheric turbulence has a greater influence on the performance of the atmospheric laser communication system increasing the bit error rate (BER) and reducing the signal to noise ratio (SNR). If the bidirectional free space laser transmission link has channel reciprocity, the change of optical signal intensity at the two terminal is correlated, and channel state information (CSI) can be obtained at the transmitter, which saves channel space and improves real-time detection of instantaneous CSI and communication channel capacity. In this paper, under the condition of weak-fluctuation, according to the Rytov approximation theory, the relationship between the correlation of optical signal of receiving terminal and transmission path of bidirectional free space laser transmission link is deduced and analyzed, and then the coaxial atmospheric laser transmission link of bidirectional transmitting and receiving is built for field experiment. Experimental results show that the intensity of optical signal at the receiving terminalof bidirectional free space laser transmission link is correlated. The correlation coefficient is related to the location of transmission path. The probability density distribution of the optical signal collected by the experiment obeys the terminal and approximation theory, the relationship between the correlation of optical signal of receiving terminal and transmission path of bidirectional free space laser transmission link is deduced and analyzed, and then the coaxial is correlated. The correlation coefficient is related to the location of transmission path. The probability density distribution of the optical signal collected by the experiment obeys the lognormal distribution, and the real-time change trend of the intensity of the speckle signal at the both receivers is same. Therefore, the atmospheric channel of the bidirectional free space laser transmission link is reciprocal. The conclusion of this paper is of great significance for realizing high-rate and low bit error rate transmission in atmospheric channel.
In a wireless optical communication system, since the attenuation of the response of the light source becomes higher as the frequency of the signal is higher, it is more difficult to modulate the high frequency signal.In order to compensate for the attenuation of the frequency response of the light source when transmitting high frequency signals, we design a nonlinear compensation method acting on the transmitter of the wireless optical communication system based on cascaded transistor amplifier circuit. In order to verify the role of the nonlinear compensation method, we selected the blue LED as the light source and built a wireless optical communication system. The experimental results show that the nonlinear compensation method extends the 3dB modulation bandwidth of the system from 12MHz to 235MHz.
When the optical signal is transmitted in atmospheric channel in the wireless optical communication (WOC) systems, the inter-symbol interference (ISI) will be caused by the atmospheric motion and the fading characteristics of the atmospheric channel. In addition, device noises such as photodetectors noises can also affect the signal in the real communication systems. It is difficult to eliminate both types of interference by the single equalization algorithm at the same time, therefore, a cascaded equalization algorithm is proposed. First of all, we use the MATLAB to simulate the cascaded equalization algorithm, the convergence performance of the algorithm is analyzed, the bit error rate (BER) under different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) are also compared. Then, the algorithm is verified under laboratory conditions, we calculate the BER of the receiving signal, which is processed by the cascade equalization algorithm. The simulation analysis and experiments results show that, the convergence performance of the cascaded equalization algorithm is improved effectively, the ISI is decrease, the BER can reduce to about 10-8 , decreased by 4 orders of magnitude than without equalization. It can improve the communication performance of the WOC systems, the validation of the cascaded equalization algorithm is verified.
Atmospheric turbulence has a great influence on the performance of the atmospheric laser communication system reducing the signal to noise ratio (SNR) and increasing the bit error rate (BER). However, there is rarely study on the effect of atmospheric turbulence on the power spectrum of the rectangular pulse. In this paper, a spectral analyzing method is used to analyze the influence of atmospheric turbulence on the signal. An experiment of laser beam propagation characteristic is carried out on a 6km horizontal atmospheric link, the wavelength is 808 nm. The signal is 100MHz rectangular pulse. The waveform of the rectangular pulse is collected by the oscilloscope, and the power spectral density of the signal is calculated and analyzed by the method of periodogram. Experimental results show that the response and noise characteristics of the laser and photoelectric detector have a great influence on the signal power spectrum distribution which can increase the noise component in the 10^6 Hz frequency range. After the atmospheric turbulence propagation, the signal power decreases in the whole frequency range. However, as the existence of atmospheric turbulence, the signal power increases in the atmospheric turbulence characteristic frequency (tens to hundreds of Hz). The noise power increases in the high frequency range (10^7~10^8 Hz).
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