DocumentCode
3124752
Title
Outage Probability for Free-Space Optical Systems Over Slow Fading Channels With Pointing Errors
Author
Farid, Ahmed A. ; Hranilovic, Steve
Author_Institution
Dept. Electr. & Comp. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont.
fYear
2006
fDate
Oct. 2006
Firstpage
82
Lastpage
83
Abstract
We investigate the outage capacity of free-space optical communication links in the presence of atmospheric turbulence and pointing errors. An expression for the outage probability is derived and we show that optimizing the transmitted beam width with respect to detector size and pointing error variance maximizes the achievable rates
Keywords
atmospheric light propagation; atmospheric turbulence; channel capacity; fading channels; optical links; optical transmitters; pointing systems; probability; atmospheric turbulence; channel capacity; free-space optical communication links; laser beam transmission; outage probability; pointing error variance; slow fading channel; Atmospheric modeling; Channel capacity; Fading; Optical attenuators; Optical noise; Optical receivers; Optical refraction; Optical transmitters; Optical variables control; Probability;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2006. LEOS 2006. 19th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Conference_Location
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN
0-7803-9555-7
Electronic_ISBN
0-7803-9555-7
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/LEOS.2006.278847
Filename
4054066
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