Non-line-of-sight ultraviolet communication based on DHT ACO-OFDM

Qian Gao; Gang Chen

doi:10.1117/12.930584

24 October 2012 Non-line-of-sight ultraviolet communication based on DHT ACO-OFDM

Qian Gao, Gang Chen

Proceedings Volume 8517, Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans; 85170D (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.930584
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2012, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Free space optical (FSO) communication has attracted tremendous research interest in the recent year. Most existing works focus only on the line-of-sight (LOS) transmission by infrared (IR) or visible light lasers/LEDs, while this article suggested a framework of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) FSO, motivated by our recent experimental results on the successful transmission of NLOS ultraviolet (UV) beams for up to kilometers, which is comparable to the typical distance a LOS FSO transmission. The NLOS provides an alternate path when the LOS path is shadowed or is highly attenuated. In order to mitigate the multipath dispersion of the NLOS FSO, a baseband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation scheme was proposed, based on Discrete Hartley Transform (DHT) and asymmetric clipping to guarantee the positive-realness of the transmitted optical intensity. The proposed system could reduce the hardware complexity of transmitter and receiver. Minimum mean square error (MMSE) precoder was applied before the DHT to remove the crosstalk between subcarriers, i.e. the frequency domain orthogonality of OFDM was preserved. Performance of the BPSK modulated communication system was given under lognormal atmospheric turbulence for demonstration of the feasibility of the proposed method.

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Qian Gao and Gang Chen "Non-line-of-sight ultraviolet communication based on DHT ACO-OFDM", Proc. SPIE 8517, Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans, 85170D (24 October 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.930584

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