• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.239-245
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• 2024

This paper proposes single logarithmic amplification (single-LA) and deep learning (DL)-based fixed-threshold on-off keying (OOK) detection for free-space optical (FSO) communication. Multilevel LAs (MLAs) can be used to mitigate intensity fluctuations in the received OOK signal by their nonlinear gain characteristics; however, it is ineffective in the case of high scintillation, owing to degradation of the OOK signal's extinction ratio. Therefore, a DL technique is applied to realize effective scintillation compensation in single-LA applications. Fully connected (FC) networks and fully connected neural networks (FCNN), which have nonlinear modeling characteristics, are deployed in this work. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated through simulations under various scintillation effects. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional adaptive-threshold-decision, single-LA-based, MLA-based, FC-based, and FCNN-based OOK detection techniques.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.700-711
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• 2020

Because of the rapid increase of mobile traffic, flexible broadband supportive unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based 6G mobile networks using free space optical (FSO) links have been recently proposed. Considering the advancements made in UAVs, big data processing, and artificial intelligence precision control technologies, the formation of an additional wireless network based on UAV aerial platforms to assist the existing fixed base stations of the mobile radio access network is considered a highly viable option in the near future. In this paper, a combined time bound optimization scheme is proposed that can adaptively satisfy the control and communication time constraints as well as the processing time constraints in FSO-based 6G UAV aerial networks. The proposed scheme controls the relation between the number of data flows, input data rate, number of worker nodes considering the time bounds, and the errors that occur during communication and data processing. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme is very effective in satisfying the time constraints for UAV control and radio access network services, even when errors in communication and data processing may occur.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2021

We have evaluated the suppression effect of atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation in terrestrial free-space optical (FSO) communication systems using a gain-saturated erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The variation of EDFA output signal power has been measured with different amounts of gain saturation and modulation indices of the optical input signal. From the measured results, we have found that the peak-to-peak power variation was decreased drastically below 2 kHz of modulation frequency, in both 3-dB and 6-dB gain compression cases. Then, the power spectral density (PSD) of optical scintillation has been calculated with Butterworth-type transfer function. In the calculation, different levels of atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation have been taken into account with different values of the Butterworth cut-off frequency. Finally, the suppression effect of optical scintillation has been estimated with the measured frequency response of the EDFA and the calculated PSD of the optical scintillation. From our estimated results, the atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation could be suppressed efficiently, as long as the EDFA were operated in a deeply gain-saturated region.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.368-380
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• 2016

There is no doubt that adaptive optics (AO) is the most promising method to compensate wavefront disturbance in free space optics communication (FSO). In order to improve the performance of the AO system described by discrete-time linear system model with time-delay and implicit phase turbulent model, new controllers based on a Kalman filter and its extensions are proposed. Based on the standard Kalman filter, we propose a fading memory filter to deal with the ruleless strong interference; sequential and U-D filters are applied to reduce implementation complexity for the embedded controllers. Theoretical analysis and the numerical simulations show that the proposed fading memory filter can upgrade the performance for AO systems in consideration of the unforeseen strong pulse interference, and the sequential and U-D filters perform well compared with a Kalman filter.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.345-353
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• 2023

We propose a turbulence-tolerant Manchester on-off keying (M-OOK) transmission for free-space optical (FSO) communication. At the transmitter end, a M-OOK signal featuring a spectrum with low-frequency components absent is modulated and transmitted into a turbulent channel. At the receiver end, a low-pass filter (LPF) -based adaptive-threshold decision (ATD) with LPF-extracted channel-state information (CSI) and a high-pass filter (HPF)-based fixed-threshold decision (FTD) are employed to compensate for the effects of turbulence, owing to the low-frequency spectral characteristics of the turbulent channel. The performance of LPF-based ATD and HPF-based FTD are evaluated for various cutoff frequencies for the LPF and HPF. Besides, the proposed M-OOK transmission is compared to conventional non-return-to-zero OOK (NRZ-OOK) for different data rates. The proposed technique is verified in simulation. The simulation results show that the proposed M-OOK detection with optimized cutoff frequencies of LPF and HPF has better bit-error-rate (BER) performance compared to NRZ-OOK, and it is close to the theoretical ATD with the knowledge of precise CSI under various degrees of turbulence effects.

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 수 km이하의 이동 기지국에 활용할 수 있는 대기공간 광통신(Free Space Optic) 장치를 제작하고 그 특성을 알아보았다. 대기전송으로 인한 손실을 극복하고자 23dBm 이상의 출력을 갖는 광섬유증폭기(EDFA)를 사용하였다. 레이저 빔의 집속도를 높이고 소형화하기 위하여 광학렌즈를 제작하였으며, 1.5 ~1.8[mrad] 범위내에서 빔 발산각(divergence)을 갖도록 송신렌즈를 설계하였다. 송수신부의 장비간의 효과적인 자동정렬과 포인팅 에러를 줄이기 위하여 PAN/TILT를 제어하는 PT 모듈을 제작하였다. 본 연구에서는 일정한 수준이상으로 전송품질을 유지하기 위하여 Reed-Solomon(RS) 코드를 사용하였다. 가시도 300m의 기후 상황에서 300m 대기공간 거리를 통신이 가능하도록 제작하였다. 성능측정을 위하여 비트에러 측정기와 아이패턴 분석기를 이용하여 측정하였으며 2.5Gbps 이상에서 10^-9 BER을 유지할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.113-121
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 우리나라의 위성-지상 하향 무선 광통신 시스템의 링크 가용성을 분석하였다. 주요 5개 도시(서울, 부산, 대구, 대전, 광주)의 최근 10년간의 기상 데이터를 활용했으며, 대기의 흡수 및 산란 손실과 신틸레이션 손실, 그리고 에어로졸 손실을 모두 고려하여 링크 가용성을 이론적으로 예측하였다. 정확하면서도 보수적인 링크 가용성 계산을 위하여 수적(cloud droplet)의 최대 개수 밀도를 사용하는 새로운 손실 모델을 제시하였다. 지상 기지국이 주요 5개 도시 중 한 곳에 위치하며, 대기 손실에 20 dB의 링크 버짓을 할당할 것을 전제한 경우 우리나라 위상-지상 하향 무선 광통신 링크의 가용성은 45-70%로 예측되었다. 그러나 3개 또는 5개 도시의 위치 다이버시티를 적용하면, 링크 가용성이 각각 90%와 97%로 크게 향상될 수 있을 것으로 예측되었다.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2012

The deployment of mobile femtocellular networks can enhance the service quality for the users inside the vehicles. The deployment of mobile femtocells generates a lot of handover calls. Also, numbers of group handover scenarios are found in mobile femtocellular network deployment. The ability to seamlessly switch between the femtocells and the macrocell networks is a key concern for femtocell network deployment. However, until now there is no effective and complete handover scheme for the mobile femtocell network deployment. Also handover between the backhaul networks is a major concern for the mobile femtocellular network deployment. In this paper, we propose handover control between the access networks for the individual handover cases. Call flows for the handover between the backhaul networks of the macrocell-to-macrocell case are proposed in this paper. We also propose the link switching for the FSO based backhaul networks. The proposed resource allocation scheme ensures the negligible handover call dropping probability as well as higher bandwidth utilization.