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Laser communication has the characteristics of wide bandwidth, high data rate, and low power consumption, which is an important way to realize the information exchange of large amount. However, the transmission quality is deeply affected by atmospheric absorption, scattering, turbulence, and background light, which bring certain challenges to its reliability. This paper firstly summarizes the mathematical models of the main factors, and simulates the error rate of the incoherent optical link under the influence of beam wander, beam scintillation, and beam spreading. Finally, the paper further proposes a full-element BER analysis model including the influence of atmospheric turbulence, absorption and scattering, and background light.
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This work is supported by Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission Research under Project Z17110005217001.
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Xu, XF., Wang, NW., Lu, Z. (2020). Bit Error Rate Analysis of Space-to-Ground Optical Link Under the Influence of Atmospheric Turbulence. In: Liang, Q., Wang, W., Liu, X., Na, Z., Jia, M., Zhang, B. (eds) Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems. CSPS 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 571. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9409-6_258
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