Comparing the cloud attenuation for different optical wavelengths

Free Space Optics (FSO) has the tremendous potential to provide multi-gigabits-per-second transmission links for future aerospace applications. However, the widespread growth of the technology is hampered by reduced availability issues related to weather influences on the link. Among different weath...

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Published in2009 International Conference on Emerging Technologies pp. 482 - 486
Main Authors Nadeem, F., Awan, M.S., Leitgeb, E., Khan, M.S., Muhammed, S.S., Kandus, G.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2009
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Biomedical optical imaging
Cloud attenuation
Clouds
FSO
High speed optical techniques
Line of sight (LoS)
Mie scattering
Optical attenuators
Optical propagation
Optical scattering
Optical Wavelengths
Space technology
Video on demand
Wireless communication
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Summary:Free Space Optics (FSO) has the tremendous potential to provide multi-gigabits-per-second transmission links for future aerospace applications. However, the widespread growth of the technology is hampered by reduced availability issues related to weather influences on the link. Among different weather attenuations, clouds play an important role by causing link outage up to several hours. In this paper the cloud attenuations by different optical wavelengths are compared on the basis of Mie scattering theory so that the optical wavelengths having high immunity to cloud attenuations can be selected for optical wireless communication links.
ISBN:9781424456307
1424456304
DOI:10.1109/ICET.2009.5353121