• DocumentCode
    3096152
  • Title

    Optical MIMO transmission using a heterodyne receiver in K-distributed turbulence channels

  • Author

    Niu, Mingbo ; Cheng, Julian ; Holzman, Jonathan F.

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Eng., Univ. of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-11 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    165
  • Lastpage
    166
  • Abstract
    Closed-form error rate expressions of heterodyne free-space optical transmission are presented for K-distributed turbulent environments. Our simplified solutions are highly accurate for practical multiple-input multiple-output system performance estimation.
  • Keywords
    MIMO communication; atmospheric turbulence; error statistics; heterodyne detection; optical links; optical modulation; optical receivers; quadrature phase shift keying; series (mathematics); telecommunication channels; K-distributed turbulence channels; QPSK; closed-form error rate; free-space optical transmission; heterodyne receiver; multiple-input multiple-output system; optical MIMO transmission; quadrature phase-shift keying; Adaptive optics; Error analysis; MIMO; Optical mixing; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Phase shift keying;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1526-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOSST.2012.6280800
  • Filename
    6280800