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6 September 2011 Atmospheric channel transfer function estimation from experimental free-space optical communications data
Colin N. Reinhardt, Yasuo Kuga, James A. Ritcey, Akira Ishimaru, Stephen Hammel, Dimitris Tsintikidis
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Abstract
The performance of terrestrial free-space optical communications systems is severely impaired by atmospheric aerosol particle distributions where the particle size is on the order of the operating wavelength. For optical and near-infrared wavelengths, fog droplets cause multiple-scattering and absorption effects which rapidly degrade received symbol detection performance as the optical depth parameter increases (visibility decreases). Using a custom free-space optical communications system we measured field data in fog within the optical multiple-scattering regime. We investigate the behavior of the estimated channel transfer function using both real field-test data and simulated propagation data based on field-test conditions. We then compare the channel transfer function estimates against the predictions computed using a radiative-transfer theory model-based approach which we also developed previously for the free-space optical atmospheric channel.
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Colin N. Reinhardt, Yasuo Kuga, James A. Ritcey, Akira Ishimaru, Stephen Hammel, and Dimitris Tsintikidis "Atmospheric channel transfer function estimation from experimental free-space optical communications data", Proc. SPIE 8161, Atmospheric Optics IV: Turbulence and Propagation, 81610I (6 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.896226
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KEYWORDS
Fiber optic gyroscopes

Radiative transfer

Atmospheric modeling

Atmospheric optics

Free space optics

Data modeling

Channel projecting optics

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