• DocumentCode
    3625986
  • Title

    On the relation between atmospheric visibility and optical wave attenuation

  • Author

    Martin Grabner;Vaclav Kvicera

  • Author_Institution
    TESTCOM, Hvo?d´ansk? 3, 148 01 Praha 4, Czech, Republic. phone: +420 271192226
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    7/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    The knowledge about the relationship between atmospheric visibility and optical wave attenuation in the atmosphere is essential in order to predict the performance of free space optical communication links. In this paper, a study of the available models of visibility -attenuation relation is presented. Visibility and attenuation are measured on an experimental free space optical link with a wavelength of 830 nm. New models are proposed based on the least square fitting of data from this measurement.
  • Keywords
    "Optical attenuators","Atmospheric waves","Optical fiber communication","Atmospheric modeling","Wavelength measurement","Atmosphere","Atmospheric measurements","Attenuation measurement","Extraterrestrial measurements","Least squares methods"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, 2007. 16th IST
  • ISSN
    2167-1753
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1662-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2167177X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISTMWC.2007.4299042
  • Filename
    4299042