Impact of atmospheric turbulence and weather conditions on the performance of satellite-to-ground optical communication system based on multiaperture coherent receivers

Xiaoyu Zhang; Sheng Cui; Deming Liu; Yang Jiang

doi:10.1117/1.OE.58.5.056110

22 May 2019 Impact of atmospheric turbulence and weather conditions on the performance of satellite-to-ground optical communication system based on multiaperture coherent receivers

Xiaoyu Zhang, Sheng Cui, Deming Liu, Yang Jiang

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 58, Issue 5, 056110 (May 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.5.056110

Abstract

For satellite-to-ground downlink optical communication systems, it is desirable to reduce the size, weight, and power profiles of the space terminals by employing high sensitivity and large collection area ground terminals. Multiaperture coherent receivers utilizing spatial diversity techniques can satisfy this requirement and have many advantages over the single large aperture coherent receivers. The influence of both atmospheric turbulence and weather conditions on the bit error rate performance of multiaperture coherent receivers utilizing maximum ratio combining, equal gain combining, and selection combining techniques is systematically investigated and compared for the satellite-to-ground downlink communication system. The results are useful for the design and adaptive optimization of the multiaperture coherent receiver-based downlink communication systems.

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Xiaoyu Zhang, Sheng Cui, Deming Liu, and Yang Jiang "Impact of atmospheric turbulence and weather conditions on the performance of satellite-to-ground optical communication system based on multiaperture coherent receivers," Optical Engineering 58(5), 056110 (22 May 2019). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.58.5.056110

Received: 19 February 2019; Accepted: 30 April 2019; Published: 22 May 2019

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