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Impact of Various Parameters on the Performance of Inter-aircraft Optical Wireless Communication Link

  • Mehtab Singh ORCID logo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: September 23, 2016
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Journal of Optical Communications
From the journal Journal of Optical Communications Volume 39 Issue 1

Abstract

Optical wireless communication (OWC) systems also known as Free space optics (FSO) are capable of providing high channel bandwidth, high data transmission rates, low power consumption, and high security. OWC links are being considered in different applications such as inter-satellite links, terrestrial links, and inter-aircraft communication links. This paper investigates the impact of different system parameters such as transmission power level, operating wavelength, transmitter pointing error angle, bit transmission rate, atmospheric attenuation, antenna aperture diameter, geometric losses, the responsivity of the photodetector, and link range on the performance of inter-aircraft optical wireless communication link.

Keywords: OWC; FSO; inter-aircraft links; SNR; received power

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Received: 2016-8-17
Accepted: 2016-8-30
Published Online: 2016-9-23
Published in Print: 2017-12-20

© 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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  4. Devices
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  6. All-Optical Half-Adder Circuit Based on Beam Interference Principle of Photonic Crystal
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  11. Performance Investigation of FSO–OFDM Communication Systems under the Heavy Rain Weather
  12. Bi-orthogonal Symbol Mapping and Detection in Optical CDMA Communication System
  13. Modeling and Performance Analysis of 10 Gbps Inter-satellite Optical Wireless Communication Link
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  16. Channel Model Optimization with Reflection Residual Component for Indoor MIMO-VLC System
  17. Performance Enhancement of Ultra High Capacity 2.5 Tbps DWDM System Using DCF and Optimized Modulation Format
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  20. Optimizing Parameters of an Optical Link by Using Genetic Algorithms
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  22. Theory
  23. A Unified Approach for Calculating Error Rates of 10 Gbps WDM Network in Presence of Higher Order Dispersion
  24. Influence of Transmitting Pointing Errors on High Speed WDM-AMI-Is-OWC Transmission System
  25. Lasers
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https://doi.org/10.1515/joc-2016-0112
Keywords for this article
OWC; FSO; inter-aircraft links; SNR; received power

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Detectors
  3. Enhanced Performance Analysis of Inter-aircraft Optical Wireless Communication Link Using Array of Photodetectors
  4. Devices
  5. Very Flat Optical Frequency Comb Generation based on Polarization Modulator and Recirculation Frequency Shifter
  6. All-Optical Half-Adder Circuit Based on Beam Interference Principle of Photonic Crystal
  7. Networks
  8. Maximization Network Throughput Based on Improved Genetic Algorithm and Network Coding for Optical Multicast Networks
  9. Systems
  10. Review of Microwave Photonics Technique to Generate the Microwave Signal by Using Photonics Technology
  11. Performance Investigation of FSO–OFDM Communication Systems under the Heavy Rain Weather
  12. Bi-orthogonal Symbol Mapping and Detection in Optical CDMA Communication System
  13. Modeling and Performance Analysis of 10 Gbps Inter-satellite Optical Wireless Communication Link
  14. High-speed and Long-reach Hybrid AMI–WDM–PI Inter-satellite Communication System
  15. Transmitter Spatial Diversity for FSO Uplink in Presence of Atmospheric Turbulence and Weather Conditions for Different IM Schemes
  16. Channel Model Optimization with Reflection Residual Component for Indoor MIMO-VLC System
  17. Performance Enhancement of Ultra High Capacity 2.5 Tbps DWDM System Using DCF and Optimized Modulation Format
  18. High Speed Inter-Satellite Communication System by Incorporating Hybrid Polarization-Wavelength Division Multiplexing Scheme
  19. Performance Analysis of Amplify-and-Forward Relaying FSO/SC-QAM Systems over Weak Turbulence Channels and Pointing Error Impairments
  20. Optimizing Parameters of an Optical Link by Using Genetic Algorithms
  21. Impact of Various Parameters on the Performance of Inter-aircraft Optical Wireless Communication Link
  22. Theory
  23. A Unified Approach for Calculating Error Rates of 10 Gbps WDM Network in Presence of Higher Order Dispersion
  24. Influence of Transmitting Pointing Errors on High Speed WDM-AMI-Is-OWC Transmission System
  25. Lasers
  26. Generation of Flattened Multicarrier Signals from a Single Laser Source for 330 Gbps WDM-PON Transmission over 25 km SSMF
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