Publication detail

Estimation of Free Space Optics Systems Availability Based on Meteorological Visibility

PROKEŠ, A. ŠKORPIL, V.

Original Title

Estimation of Free Space Optics Systems Availability Based on Meteorological Visibility

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

A number of phenomena in the atmosphere such as scattering, absorption and turbulence can cause large variation in laser beam attenuation. The influence of absorption and turbulence can in some cases be significantly reduced by an appropriate design of free space optics (FSO) systems. Thus, in a typical continental area, where rain, snow or fog occur, scattering is the most important phenomenon causing power losses. Attenuation due to scattering can be expressed as a function of the link distance, wavelength and meteorological visibility. The paper deals with the estimation of FSO availability based on statistical evaluation of visibility data collected at several airports in Europe. The availability is evaluated in dependence on link distance, wavelength and power link margin.

Keywords

FSO, link availability, scattering, meteorological visibility, atmospheric attenuation

Authors

PROKEŠ, A.; ŠKORPIL, V.

RIV year

2009

Released

11. 9. 2009

Publisher

IEEE New York, NY 10017 USA

Location

Medellin, Kolumbie

ISBN

978-1-4244-4387-1

Book

Proocedings of The IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications 2009 (LATINCOM 2009)

Pages from

1

Pages to

4

Pages count

4

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT29672,
  author="Aleš {Prokeš} and Vladislav {Škorpil}",
  title="Estimation of Free Space Optics Systems Availability Based on Meteorological Visibility",
  booktitle="Proocedings of The IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications 2009 (LATINCOM 2009)",
  year="2009",
  pages="1--4",
  publisher="IEEE New York, NY 10017 USA",
  address="Medellin, Kolumbie",
  isbn="978-1-4244-4387-1"
}