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Published on: August 12, 2013
Average capacity of free-space optical systems for a partially coherent beam propagating through non-Kolmogorov
1State Key Laboratory of Modern Optical Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Abstract:
The performance of partially coherent free-space optical links is investigated in the moderate to strong fluctuation regime of non-Kolmogorov turbulence. The expressions for large- and small-scale log-irradiance flux variance are obtained in non-Kolmogorov turbulence. By employing the gamma-gamma distribution of irradiance fluctuations, the effects of spatial coherence of the source, index of non-Kolmogorov spectrum, and size of the receiver on channel capacity for horizontal links are discussed. Results show that channel capacity presents fluctuating behaviors with the variation of alpha for longer links and increases for alpha values higher than 11/3.
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