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Published on: March 20, 2017
Capacity of coherent free-space optical links using diversity-combining techniques
Aniceto Belmonte1, Joseph M Kahn
1Technical University of Catalonia, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, 08034 Barcelona, Spain. belmonte@tsc.upc.edu
Abstract:
We study the performance of diversity combining techniques applied to synchronous laser communication through the turbulent atmosphere. We assume that a single information-bearing signal is transmitted over two or more statistically independent fading channels, and that the multiple replicas are combined at the receiver to improve detection efficiency. We consider the effects of log-normal amplitude fluctuations and Gaussian phase fluctuations, in addition to local oscillator shot noise. We study the effect of various parameters, including the ratio of receiver aperture diameter to wavefront coherence diameter, the scintillation index, and the number of independent diversity branches combined at the receiver. We consider both maximal-ratio combining (MRC) and selective combining (SC) diversity schemes. We derive expressions for the outage Shannon capacity, thus placing upper bounds on the spectral efficiency achievable using these techniques.
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