13 February 2021 Investigation of weather effects toward convergence of wired and wireless gigabit services over hybrid free-space optical link
Abhishek Tripathi, Shilpi Gupta, Abhilash Mandloi
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Abstract

We investigate hybrid free-space optical (FSO) link in converged baseband and 60-GHz radio-frequency signals under adverse climate conditions. In this approach, optical double-sideband with carrier method is utilized. The adoption of such an FSO system can be contributed to existing fiber-optic architecture. Managing the signal strength by erbium-doped fiber amplifier, deployment of the system serves the data rate of 2.5  Gb  /  s to fiber-optic and pico/femto-cellular users concurrently. Our paper studies the impact of rainfall, snowfall, and fog-visibility with the maximum value of 250  mm  /  h, 10  mm  /  h, and 1.5 km, respectively. System performance is relatively evaluated for an optical wireless range of 1 km and back-to-back connection. For the bit error rate (BER) of ∼10  −  9, the receiver sensitivity in range of −25.06 to −24.86  dBm for wired and −23.48 to −23.06  dBm for wireless is obtained. The BER analysis shows effective FSO transmission up to 1 km in the rainy season and up to half a kilometer in frequent fog and snow events. The investigation reports the notable power margin for deploying a hybrid optical link in areas where fog or snow impact is higher than rain.

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Abhishek Tripathi, Shilpi Gupta, and Abhilash Mandloi "Investigation of weather effects toward convergence of wired and wireless gigabit services over hybrid free-space optical link," Optical Engineering 60(2), 026102 (13 February 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.60.2.026102
Received: 8 October 2020; Accepted: 20 January 2021; Published: 13 February 2021
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KEYWORDS
Free space optics

Signal attenuation

Fiber optic gyroscopes

Performance modeling

Radio optics

Climatology

Hybrid optics

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