The paper deals with an analysis of visibility records collected from 210 European airports to obtain a realistic estimation of the availability of Free Space Optical (FSO) data links. Commercially available optical links usually operate in the 850nm waveband. Thus the influence of the atmosphere on the optical beam and on the visible light is similar. Long-term visibility records represent an ...

Atmospheric free-space optical (FSO) transmission using intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) can provide high-speed links for a variety of applications, being an interesting alternative to consider for next generation broadband in order to support large bandwidth, unlicensed spectrum, excellent security, and quick and inexpensive setup [9]. Recently, the use of FSO transmission is ...

Free-Space Optical (FSO) communication is reputed for its ability to proffer solution to the access network bottle-neck but when used over long range communication links, it suffers from scintillation caused by the atmospheric turbulence. The scintillation is modelled using the negative exponential distribution. Hereby, we present the outage probability and the bit error probability equations o...

This paper is written in response to many inquiries about 10 μ Free-Space Optics (FSO) performance compared to shorter wavelengths. The increasing interest in better understanding FSO weather effects is the result of carrier requests as well as recent progress in analyzing fog effects on FSO signal propagation. Extensive studies in modeling fog and simulating FSO attenuations revealed the compl...

Free Space Optics (FSO) or optical wireless communication is a promising solution for the need to very high data rate point-to-point communication. In FSO communication links, atmospheric turbulence causes fluctuations in both the intensity and the phase of the received light signal, impairing link performance. This intensity fluctuation, also known as scintillation is one of the most important...

The paper deals with an analysis of visibility records collected from 210 European airports to obtain a realistic estimation of the availability of Free Space Optical (FSO) data links. Commercially available optical links usually operate in the 850nm waveband. Thus the influence of the atmosphere on the optical beam and on the visible light is similar. Long-term visibility records represent an ...

Our objective is to provide guaranteed packet delivery service in time constrained sensor networks. The wireless network is a highly variable environment, where available link bandwidth may vary with network load. Since multimedia applications require higher bandwidth so we use FSO links for their transmission. The main advantage of FSO links is that they offer higher bandwidth and security, wh...

Free Space Optics (FSO), also known as Optical Wireless or Lasercom (i.e. Laser Communications), is a re-emerging technology using modulated optical beams to establish short, medium or long reach wireless data transmission. Most of the attention on FSO communication systems it was initially boost by military purposes and first development of this technology was dedicated to the solution of issu...

The multi-copy routing paradigm in Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) implies that increasing contact bandwidth leads to a decrease in data delivery delay and an improvement in throughput. With Hybrid Radio Frequency/Free Space Optical (RF/FSO) PHY layers, the high data rate FSO links can be used to increase the contact bandwidth. However, due to the highly directional nature of FSO links, broadcas...

The effects of aberration on the Bit-Error-Rate (BER) and reliability of free- space optical (FSO) communication links are investigated. Based on aberrated divergent rectangular partially coherent flat-topped beam formula on the receiver plane and considering the atmosphere losses due to absorption and scattering, numerical values for Power In Bucket (PIB), Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and BER a...