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This study investigates the average signal-to-noise ratio $ \left\langle {\textrm{SNR}} \right\rangle $ ⟨ SNR ⟩ at the shot-noise limited receiver of an optical wireless communication system (OWC) that uses collimated Gaussian beam with adaptive optics correction in non-Kolmogorov weak turbulent atmosphere. $ \left\langle {\textrm{SNR}} \right\rangle $ ⟨ SNR ⟩ and the variation in the percentage $ \left\langle {\textrm{SNR}} \right\rangle $ ⟨ SNR ⟩ are calculated and the results are presented against various adaptive optics correction modes, non-Kolmogorov power-law exponent, receiver aperture size, Gaussian beam source size, photodetector quantum efficiency, electronic bandwidth, link length, and turbulence strength. Adaptive optics correction is analyzed for tilt, defocus, astigmatism, coma and trefoil modes and their variations. The effects of adaptive optics compensation are examined that cause an increase in SNR, hence improve the performance of an OWC system using collimated Gaussian beam and operating in the non-Kolmogorov weak turbulent atmosphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We investigated the effect of anisotropic non-Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence on the performance of the optical wireless systems when M-ary Pulse Position Modulation (PPM) is applied to a Gaussian beam. The performance of the optical wireless systems that use avalanche photodetector at the receiver is evaluated in terms of the bit error rate (BER). The effects of the parameters, such as the anisotropy factors in x–y directions, modulation order, data bit rate, equivalent load resistor, photodetector quantum efficiency, non-Kolmogorov turbulence power law exponent, beam source size, link length, photodetector gain and structure constant on BER of the M-ary PPM Gaussian beam propagating in anisotropic non-Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulence, are examined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In strong oceanic turbulence, we investigate the bit error rate (BER) performance of underwater wireless optical communication links by employing phase shift keying subcarrier intensity modulated Gaussian laser beam at the transmitter and positive-intrinsic-negative photodetector having finite sized aperture at the receiver. Using the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle, which is conventionally used to analyze the optical beam propagation through turbulence, we evaluate the optical intensity and corresponding signal power over the receiver aperture. Gamma-gamma statistical model for the received intensity is adopted due to strong oceanic turbulence and the required aperture averaged scintillation for this model is obtained by the use of asymptotic Rytov theory. In our performance investigation, we consider the effects of various oceanic turbulences, modulation, receiver noise type, and the photodetector parameters on the BER performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, we consider an underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system which consists of an M -ary pulse position modulated (PPM) Gaussian optical beam at the transmitter and an avalanche photodiode (APD) at the receiver. In strong oceanic turbulence, we aimed at investigating the system performance in terms of bit error rate (BER) by the help of gamma–gamma channel model. For this purpose, the average power and the aperture averaged scintillation at the finite sized detector are derived by using the extended Huygens–Fresnel principle and the asymptotic Rytov theory, respectively. BER variations are examined versus the average APD gain, modulation order, bit rate as well as the oceanic turbulence parameters, i.e., the rate of dissipation of kinetic energy per unit mass of fluid, the rate of dissipation of mean-squared temperature and the ratio of temperature to salinity contributions to the refractive index spectrum. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Effects of tissue turbulence on the propagation properties of an annular laser beam is examined. In this respect, the average intensity profile and the beam spread at the observation plane are formulated and evaluated after the annular laser beam propagates through the turbulent liver tissue. In our formulation, the extended Huygens-Fresnel method is utilized with the involvement of the turbulence power spectrum of the liver tissue. Results obtained from the performed simulations include the variations of the received average intensity and the effective beam size of the annular beam against the changes in the liver tissue turbulence and the laser beam parameters, i.e., against the laser wavelength, tissue length, primary and secondary source sizes of the annular laser beam. Our work in this paper will prove to be helpful in obtaining clues to diagnose abnormalities such as cancer and tumor in a liver tissue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) techniques are employed in free-space optical (FSO) links to mitigate the degrading effects of atmospheric turbulence. We consider a MIMO FSO system, which consists of a radial laser array with partially coherent Gaussian beams at the transmitter and a detector array with Gaussian apertures at the receiver. The average power and the power correlation function at the finite-sized receiver apertures are formulated by using the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle in weak atmospheric turbulence. This let us further quantify the performance metrics such as the power scintillation index, the aperture averaging factor, and the average bit error rate (BER) as functions of system parameters. The derived power scintillation equation correctly reduces to the existing coherent and partially coherent Gaussian beam scintillation indices in the limiting cases. Using the performance metrics, we analyze the effect of various practical system parameters on the performance of a MIMO FSO system. Practical system parameters include the transmitter and receiver ring radius, number of beamlets, number of finite-aperture receivers, source size, degree of source coherence, receiver aperture radius, link distance, and the structure constant of atmosphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Multiple-input single-output (MISO) systems are employed in free space optical (FSO) links to mitigate the degrading effects of atmospheric turbulence. In this paper, we consider a MISO FSO system with practical transmitter and receiver configuration that consists of radial laser array with Gaussian beams and a Gaussian receiver aperture function. We have employed our previously derived formulation of the power scintillation in which Huygens–Fresnel principle was employed. Therefore, we choose system parameters within the range of validity of the wave structure functions. Using the on-off keying modulation and the log-normal probability distribution function, we quantify the average bit error rate (〈BER〉) of laser array beams in weak turbulence. It is observed that the radial array beams at the transmitter are more advantageous than the single Gaussian beam. However, increasing the number of array beamlets to more than three seems to have negligible effects on 〈BER〉 . It is further observed that 〈BER〉 decreases when the source size, the ring radius and the receiver aperture radius increase. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Abstract Subcarrier intensity modulation (SIM) scheme is preferred due to efficient bandwidth usage superiority over other modulation techniques such as on–off keying (OOK), pulse position modulation (PPM). In this paper, we investigate the bit error rate (BER) performance of optical wireless communication (OWC) system using binary phase shift keying (BPSK) SIM in non-Kolmogorov turbulent atmosphere. We pay attention to the weak turbulence conditions by using Rytov approximation and considering that the receiver is a PIN photodetector. Propagating beam type is Gaussian. It is seen that BER performance of the BPSK SIM OWC is significantly affected from non-Kolmogorov power law exponent, load resistor, responsivity of the PIN photodetector, bandwidth, beam source size, turbulence strength and noise factor. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]