Probability of fade estimation for FSO links with time dispersion and turbulence modeled with the gamma–gamma or the I-K distribution》.pdf

Optik 125 (2014) 7191–7197 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Optik j o u r n a l h o m epage: w w w. elsev ier.de/ijleo Probability of fade estimation for FSO links with time dispersion and turbulence modeled with the gamma–gamma or the I-K distribution G.K. Varotsos a , A.N. Stassinakis a , H.E. Nistazakis a,∗ , A.D. Tsigopoulos b , K.P. Peppas c , C.J. Aidinis a , G.S. Tombras a a Department of Electronics, Computers, Telecommunications and Control, Faculty of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 15784, Greece b Department of Battle Systems, Naval Operations, Sea Studies, Navigation, Electronics and Telecommunications, Hellenic Naval Academy, Hadjikyriakou ave, Piraeus 18539, Greece c Laboratory of Wireless Communications, National Centerfor Scientific Research – “Demokritos”, Patriarhou Grigoriou and Neapoleos, Agia Paraskevi, Athens 15310, Greece a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this work, we study the influence of the time dispersion and atmospheric turbulence effects on the Received 11 December 2013 performance of a free space optical communication system, which is using longitudinal Gaussian pulses Accepted 15 July 2014 as information bit carriers. The scintillation effect, is modeled with the gamma–gamma or the I-K distri- bution, which, both, are suitable to emulate irradiance fluctuations due to weak to strong atmospheric Keywords: turbulence conditions. Additionally, we esti