Flexible high power Free Space Optical system for aircraft to ground communications

Author

Hatziefremidis, A. ; Zarganis, Konstantinos E. ; Zoiros, K.E.

Author_Institution

Technol. Educ. Inst. of Sterea Ellada, Psahna, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

6-10 July 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Nowadays Free Space Optical (FSO) systems are a promising approach for a variety of applications such as interconnection of network nodes and as rapidly deployable communication systems in disaster recovery situations. In particular deploying FSO technology for mobile links between Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and fixed Ground Stations (GS) introduces several interesting challenges. In this paper, we investigate the ability of a mobile FSO system to operate in different atmospheric conditions. Specifically, we report a detailed optical amplification model able to support a constant Quality of Service for different distances from 1 km up to 35 km at 10 Gbps with 1550 nm wavelength. A high power optical amplifier and a low noise optical amplifier with adaptive power controlled are proposed that are able to support different environment attenuation factors. An extensive analysis among different distances for the FSO configurations links considering the Bit Error Rate (BER), the Q factor, the received signal and noise is provided.

Keywords

Q-factor; aircraft communication; autonomous aerial vehicles; error statistics; low noise amplifiers; optical communication; power amplifiers; quality of service; BER; FSO configuration link; Q factor; UAV; adaptive power control; aircraft-ground communication; bit error rate; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; disaster recovery situation; distance 1 km to 3 km; environment attenuation factor; fixed GS; fixed ground stations; flexible high-power free space optical system; high-power optical amplifier; low noise optical amplifier; mobile FSO system; mobile links; network node interconnection; optical amplification model; quality of service; received signal; unmanned aerial vehicles; wavelength 1550 nm; Bit error rate; Noise; Optical amplifiers; Optical attenuators; Optical fibers; Optical transmitters; Stimulated emission; UAV; atmospheric turbulence; mobile FSO; optical amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Graz

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2014.6876612

Filename

6876612