Performance analysis of a free space optical link in the presence of pointing errors with space diversity

Author

Nazrul Islam, A.K.M. ; Majumder, Satya P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of EEE, BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh

fYear

2014

fDate

10-12 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

An analytical approach is presented to evaluate the bit error rate (BER) performance of an optical free space link considering the effect of pointing error. The analysis is presented to evaluate the BER with multiple photo detectors in the presence of pointing error. The results are evaluated at a bit rate of 10 Gbps for various system parameters. The receiver sensitivity with pointing error is evaluated for SISO and SIMO FSO links for various system parameters. It is noticed that SIMO FSO links can tolerate more pointing error compared to SISO.

Keywords

error statistics; optical links; photodetectors; BER performance; SIMO FSO link; SISO FSO link; bit error rate; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; free space optical link; photodetectors; pointing errors; receiver sensitivity; space diversity; system parameters; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Fading; Optical fiber communication; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Bit Error Rate (BER); Diversity Technique; Free-Space Optical (FSO); Gamma-Gamma fading; Pairwise Probabilities (PP); etc; pointing error on-off keying (OOK);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (ICEEICT), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dhaka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4820-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICEEICT.2014.6919176

Filename

6919176