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An innovative approach for performance enhancement of 320 Gbps free space optical communication system over turbulent channel

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Free space optical (FSO) communication systems have recently gained huge attention as possible last mile solution in delivering high speed data services for terrestrial applications. However the FSO link performance, particularly the link range is significantly limited by the severity of atmospheric adversities affecting the channel. In this paper we advocate the use of multi-hop relay techniques to transmit wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) signal over the FSO channel. Since weather induced impairments in FSO links are distance dependent phenomena, hence relay transmission allows substantial performance enhancement by alleviating channel losses while, WDM provides cost effective solution in improving the transmission capacity. With aggregate link losses as high as 40 dB/km, the proposed 32 channel—10 Gbps (320 Gbps) FSO link has been evaluated by comparing bit error rate (BER) performances and eye patterns over different turbulent regimes. Gain optimized EDFA amplification and conventional electrical amplification have been employed to realize amplify-and-forward (A–F) multi-hop transmission in the proposed link with the former delivering more inspiring BER performance of over the latter. Our simulation results indicate that for receiver SNR of 35 dB, BER improvement up to five orders of magnitude can achieved using triple relay FSO link in contrast to direct link operating under similar conditions. Additionally, it is also observed during the analysis that for target BER of 10−5, incorporation of triple relay enhances the link range by approximately 1200 m over direct link. However on the flip side, our investigations also revealed that as the number of relay nodes is increased, the SNR gain for specified BER does increase but the magnitude of gain declines. The proposed link was designed and investigated using OptiSystem™ 14.2.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, D.A.V institute of engineering and technology and I.K.G-P.T.U, India for providing the necessary infrastructure and facilities for this research work. We are also thankful to anonymous reviewers for their invaluable comments and suggestions which have immensely helped to improve the manuscript.

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Miglani, R., Malhotra, J.S. An innovative approach for performance enhancement of 320 Gbps free space optical communication system over turbulent channel. Opt Quant Electron 51, 289 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-019-2004-8

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