The Influence of Dense Fog on Optical Wireless Systems, Analysed by Measurements in Graz for Improving the Link-Reliability

Author

Leitgeb, E. ; Muhammad, S. Sheikh ; Flecker, B. ; Chlestil, C. ; Gebhart, M. ; Javornik, T.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Broadband Commun., TU Graz

Volume

3

fYear

2006

fDate

18-22 June 2006

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

159

Abstract

Free space optics (FSO) has gained considerable importance in this decade of demand for high bandwidth transmission capabilities. FSO can provide a feasible solution for the last mile access problem, but the availability and reliability issues have prevented it from gaining mass acceptance. Thus, a thorough investigation is required into the atmospheric attenuators and their impact on terrestrial FSO. In this work, we present our results about light attenuation at 950 and 850 nm wavelengths in continental city fog conditions with peak values up to 120 dB/km and compare them with the attenuation under dense maritime conditions with peak values up to 480 dB/km. The shown measurements are mainly important for predicting the reliability of FSO links

Keywords

fog; optical links; telecommunication network reliability; 850 nm; 950 nm; Graz; atmospheric attenuators; dense fog; free space optics; light attenuation; link-reliability; optical wireless systems; Availability; Cities and towns; Nonlinear optics; Optical attenuators; Optical filters; Optical receivers; Optical saturation; Optical scattering; Optical transmitters; Wavelength measurement; availability; fog attenuation; free space optics; light attenuation; reliability measurement; snow attenuation; terrestrial links; time series analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nottingham

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0235-2

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0236-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2006.248424

Filename

4013821