OFDM Wireless Optical Communication Systems with Serial Relays Over Exponentially Modeled Turbulence Channels

The optical wireless communication systems attract very significant research and commercial interest, the last years, due to their high availability, and performance characteristics with relatively low installation and operational cost. On the other hand, due to the fact that the optical channel which is used in this technology is the atmosphere, their performance depends strongly on the atmospheric conditions and the link’s characteristics. Thus, the effective distance that these systems can cover is relatively short. Thus, in many cases where the long distance signal propagation using wireless optical systems, is necessary, relay nodes are used. In this work, we study the performance of a wireless optical system, which is using the orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) technique and relay nodes which decode and retransmit the received signal, over atmospheric turbulence channels modeled with the negative exponential distribution. For this system, we derive closed form mathematical expressions for its outage probability and average bit error rate (BER). Finally, we present the corresponding numerical results for realistic cases with common parameter values

Experimental study of bit error rate of free space optics communications in laboratory controlled turbulence

This paper reports experimental results for the performance of an free space optical (FSO) communication link employing different modulation schemes under the influence of the atmospheric scintillation. A dedicated experimental atmospheric simulation chamber has been developed where weak and medium turbulence can be generated and its effect on the FSO link is investigated. The experimental data obtained is compared to the theoretical prediction. The paper also shows that the effect on the data transmission performance depends on the position of turbulence source positioned within the chamber

Performance Analysis of Different Modulation Techniques for Free-Space Optical Communication System

Free space optical system is a hot topic, which has gaining more and more attention. But,when the signal transmitted in the channel ,the performance could be severely degraded due to the atmosphere turbulent.The purpose of this paper is to find a most suitable modulation method for FSO system under FSO channel.The performance of power efficiencies,bandwidth efficiency,BER and SNR for the four modulation schemes have studied and compared in this paper include On-Off keying (OOK), Binary Phase Shift Keying(BPSK),Differential Phase Shift Keying(DPSK) and Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK) without atmospheric turbulence. Numerical   experiments show that BPSK and QPSK schemes are better compared to other schemes in BER performance and power requirements. When take intensity scintillation under Gamma-Gamma turbulence channel into consideration and the average BER is derived with Meijer-G function, BER performances of BPSK and QPSK scheme approximate the same .Compared with BPSK,BER performance for QPSK is 3dB lower .From the simulation results, modulation for BPSK is robust resist turbulence. As a result, BPSK scheme is suitable for free-space optical communication system