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http://dx.doi.org/10.3807/KJOP.2005.16.5.417

Pulse Broadening and Intersymbol Interference of the Optical Gaussian Pulse Due to Atmospheric Turbulence in an Optical Wireless Communication System  

Jung, Jin-Ho (School of Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering, Hoseo University)
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Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics / v.16, no.5, 2005 , pp. 417-422 More about this Journal
Abstract
When an optical pulse propagates through the atmospheric channel, it is attenuated and spreaded by the atmospheric turbulence. This pulse broadening produces the intersymbol interference(ISI) between adjacent pulses. Therefore, adjacent pulses are overlapped, and the bit rates and the repeaterless transmission length are limited by the ISI. In this paper, the ISI as a function of the refractive index structure constant that presents the strength of atmospheric turbulence is found using the temporal momentum function, and is numerically analyzed fer the basic SONET transmission rates. The numerical results show that ISI is gradually increasing at the lower transmission rate than the OC-192(9.953 Gb/s) system and is slowly converging after rapid increasing at the higher transmission rate than the OC-768(39.813 Gb/s) system as the turbulence is stronger. Also, we know that accurate information transmission is possible to 10[km] at the OC-48(2.488 Gb/s) system under any atmospheric turbulence, but is impossible under the stronger turbulence than $10^{-14}[m^{-2/3}]$ at the 100 Gb/s system, $10^{-13}[m^{-2/3}]$ at the OC-768 system, and $10^{-12}[m^{-2/3}]$ at the OC-192 system, because the ISI is seriously induced.
Keywords
Optical wireless communication; Intersymbol interference; Pulse broadening; Pulse propagation; Atmospheric turbulence;
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