Study of fog mitigation in low-cost visible band FSO communication system

Colleen Lau; Kyle Chang; Jeffrey Shieh; Jason M. Childers; Anuj Gohil; Xiaomin Jin

doi:10.1117/12.2567740

22 August 2020 Study of fog mitigation in low-cost visible band FSO communication system

Colleen Lau, Kyle Chang, Jeffrey Shieh, Jason M. Childers, Anuj Gohil, Xiaomin Jin

Proceedings Volume 11506, Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans IX; 1150606 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567740
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2020, Online Only

Abstract

Free Space Optical (FSO) Communications data link offers high data rates with low system complexity but atmospheric attenuation, such as fog, alters signal integrity. In the paper, we present a novel low-cost visible band FSO system design and its performance evaluations in foggy conditions. Using LTSPICE design tools, we proposed a low-cost transmitter and receiver circuits. We built a fog-testing chamber and FSO systems to measure different transmitter sources by analyzing DC carrier powers and digital AC signals at 1MHz. A He-Ne laser at 630nm was used to calibrate chamber fog density and measure the steady state performance. Concurrently, we developed a CAD model of our FSO systems using Synopsys Optsim and obtained FSO system performance at different foggy levels to compare with our experimental results. The red laser diode (LD) at 658nm has the best performance in foggy environments with experimental attenuation of -0.20dB and simulated attenuation of -0.63dB. The green LD at 520nm and violet LD at 405nm experience experimental attenuation of -0.35dB and -0.53dB respectively. Despite beam divergence, the red LED at 615nm has good performance in foggy environments with experimental attenuation of -0.33dB and simulated attenuation of -5.2dB. The yellow LED at 590nm, green LED at 522nm, and blue LED at 470nm experience an experimental attenuation of -0.51dB, -2.2dB, and - 0.72dB respectively.

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Colleen Lau, Kyle Chang, Jeffrey Shieh, Jason M. Childers, Anuj Gohil, and Xiaomin Jin "Study of fog mitigation in low-cost visible band FSO communication system", Proc. SPIE 11506, Laser Communication and Propagation through the Atmosphere and Oceans IX, 1150606 (22 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567740

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