Author Affiliations
1 Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130033, China2 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, Chinashow less
Fig. 1. Block diagram of FSO and RF complementary communication system
Fig. 2. Schematic of hard switching
Fig. 3. Operation under dual FSO threshold
Fig. 4. Operation regions under dual FSO threshold
Fig. 5. Flow chart of time hysteresis algorithm
Fig. 6. Flow chart of power hysteresis algorithm
Fig. 7. Performance of trend prediction algorithm. (a) Reactive trend; (b) proactive trend
Fig. 8. Block diagram of switching system based on RMS detector
Fig. 9. Schematic of soft switching
Fig. 10. Soft-switching complementary communication system based on packet-level Raptor codes
Fig. 11. Laser communication link with adaptive optics compensation
Fig. 12. Structural diagram of optical modem
Fig. 13. Effect of OAGC on eye diagram of FSO link signal. (a) Without OAGC; (b) with OAGC
Fig. 14. Block diagram of DFE
Fig. 15. System performances before and after equalization. (a) Before equalization; (b) after equalization
Fig. 16. Improvement in SNR after adopting DFE. (a) Before equalization; (b) after equalization
Fig. 17. Optical windows
Link type | Instrument | Parameter | Item |
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FSO link | Data source | Modulation format | NRZ-OOK | | Data rate /(Mbit·s-1) | 10100 | Laser diode | Peak wavelength /nm | 785 | | Output power /mW | 3 | | Beam divergence /mrad | 2 | Optical lens | Diameter /mm | 40 | | Focal length /mm | 100 | Photodetector | Module | Thorlabs PDA10A-EC | | Spectral range of sensitivity /nm | 200-1100 | | Active area /mm2 | 0.8 | | Typical spectral sensitivity /(A·W-1) | 0.45 at 750 nm | RF link | | Modulation format | QPSK | | Carrier frequency /GHz | 2.4 | | Bandwith /MHz | 10 | | Transmitted RF power /dB | -3 | | Link span /m | 5.5 |
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Table 1. Key parameters of switching system based on RMS power detector
Parameter | SNRthreshold | Time andpower delay | Trendprediction | RMS powerdetector | Packet-levelRaptor codes |
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Traffic rate | Medium | Low | Medium | Low | High | Bit error rate | Low | Low | Low | High | Low | Reliability | High | | High | | Low | Channel resource utilization | Low | Low | Low | Low | High | Decoding overhead | Low | | | | Low | Hardwareimplementation complexity | | | High | Low | Low |
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Table 2. Characteristic analysis of main switching algorithms in complementary communication system
Transmitter adaptive optics status | Receiver adaptive optics status | Measured PIB /dBm | Measured PIF /dBm | Transmitter correction distance /m | Receiver correction distance /m | Measured PIB /dBm | Measured PIF /dBm |
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On | On | 0.0 | -10.0 | 4,950 | 4,950 | -1.2 | -11.3 | On | Off | -2.0 | -22.0 | 4,600 | 0 | -5.9 | -20.9 | Off | On | -12.0 | -23.0 | 0 | 7,900 | -9.0 | -27.1 | Off | Off | -12.5 | - | 0 | 0 | -12.5 | -34.0 |
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Table 3. Performance comparison of systems with and without adaptive optics compensation under strong turbulence(
Cn2=1.45×10-14)