HAPS Based FSO Links Performance Analysis and Improvement With Adaptive Optics Correction

• Published in: IEEE transactions on wireless communications Vol. 22; no. 7; pp. 4916 - 4929
• Main Authors: Ata, Yalcin, Alouini, Mohamed-Slim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York IEEE 01.07.2023; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Adaptive optics; Altitude; Atmospheric attenuation; Atmospheric modeling; Atmospheric turbulence; Attenuation; Beam waist position; Distribution functions; downlink; Downlinking; Fluctuations; Free space optics; Free-space optical communication; Ground stations; High altitude; high altitude platforms; horizontal link; Links; Mathematical analysis; Optical transmitters; outage probability; Platforms; Probability density functions; Uplink; Uplinking; Uranus; Wind speed; Wireless communication; Zernike polynomials

This paper investigates the performance of high altitude platforms high altitude platforms (HAPS) based free-space optical (FSO) communication links including HAPS-to-ground station (downlink), ground-to-HAPS (uplink) and HAPS-to-HAPS (horizontal link) communications. The effects of attenuation loss...