Mitigating of Scintillation Noise in FSO Communication Links using Saturated Optical Amplifiers

Author

Abtahi, Mohammad ; Rusch, Leslie A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Laval Univ., Que.

fYear

2006

fDate

23-25 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Saturated optical amplifiers in amplification and conversion schemes are used for suppression of turbulence noise in FSO links with high scintillation index. The PDF of logic-one and logic-zero levels are measured and compared with those of systems using the erbium doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and semi-conductor optical amplifier (SOA). The proposed receiver structure using saturated optical amplifiers causes a significant reduction in scintillation index and as a result, a reduction of BER up to three orders of magnitude is observed

Keywords

atmospheric optics; atmospheric turbulence; erbium; interference suppression; optical fibre amplifiers; optical links; optical receivers; semiconductor optical amplifiers; statistical distributions; BER; EDFA; FSO communication links; PDF; SOA; erbium doped fiber amplifier; free space optical systems; probability distribution function; receiver structure; saturated optical amplifiers; scintillation noise mitigation; semiconductor optical amplifier; turbulence noise suppression; Doped fiber amplifiers; Erbium; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Optical amplifiers; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2006. MILCOM 2006. IEEE

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0617-X

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0618-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2006.302382

Filename

4086909