Bit error rate measurement of free space optical communication links under laboratory-controlled fog conditions

Author

Ijaz, M. ; Ghassemlooy, Z. ; Le Minh, H. ; Rajbhandari, S. ; Perez, J. ; Gholami, A.

Author_Institution

Opt. Commun. Res. Group, Univ., Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

fYear

2011

Firstpage

52

Lastpage

55

Abstract

This paper outlines the experimental investigation of the fog effect on the bit error rate (BER) performance of the free space optical (FSO) communication link under a controlled laboratory environment. The link transmittance and the received signal Q-factor are measured against different levels of fog densities. The link visibility derived from fog attenuation measurement is used to characterize the fog within the chamber. Moreover, the effect of using different average transmitted optical communication power (P_opt) on the transmittance and received Q-factor of the link is also studied for light and dense fog densities.

Keywords

Q-factor; error statistics; optical communication; optical links; bit error rate measurement; bit error rate performance; dense fog density; fog attenuation measurement; free space optical communication link; laboratory-controlled fog condition; link transmittance; link visibility; optical communication power; received signal Q-factor; Adaptive optics; Bit error rate; Fiber optics; Optical attenuators; Optical beams; Optical fiber communication; Q factor; Fog; Free space optics; Transmittance; Visibility;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Optical Communications (NOC), 2011 16th European Conference on

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-753-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-86135-373-3

Type

conf

Filename

5996236