Do We Really Need OSTBCs for Free-Space Optical Communication with Direct Detection?

Majid Safari*, Murat Uysal

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this letter, we investigate spatial diversity techniques for free-space optical (FSO) links with intensity modulation and direct detection (IM/DD) over log-normal atmospheric turbulence-induced fading channels. We restrict our attention to the deployment of orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBCs) and repetition codes both of which have been recently proposed for FSO links. Our performance analysis demonstrates that, although both schemes are able to extract full diversity, repetition codes outperform OSTBCs. The performance gap increases with the increasing number of transmit apertures. Our findings clearly point out that deployment of OSTBCs is not necessary for a FSO IM/DD link.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4445-4448
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume7
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2008
Event41st Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers - Pacific Grove, Canada
Duration: 4 Nov 20077 Nov 2007

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Free-space optical communication
  • spatial diversity
  • atmospheric turbulence
  • space-time coding
  • ATMOSPHERIC-TURBULENCE CHANNELS
  • PERFORMANCE
  • DIVERSITY
  • TRANSMISSION
  • LINKS

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