Survey on free space optical communication: A communication theory perspective

MA Khalighi, M Uysal - IEEE communications surveys & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical wireless communication (OWC) refers to transmission in unguided propagation
media through the use of optical carriers, ie, visible, infrared (IR), and ultraviolet (UV) bands …

[HTML][HTML] Propagation of partially coherent beam in turbulent atmosphere: a review (invited review)

F Wang, X Liu, Y Cai - Progress In Electromagnetics Research, 2015 - jpier.org
Partially coherent beam is preferred in many applications, such as free-space optical
communications, remote sensing, active laser radar systems, etc., due to its resistance to the …

Optical communications using orbital angular momentum beams

AE Willner, H Huang, Y Yan, Y Ren… - Advances in optics …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
Orbital angular momentum (OAM), which describes the “phase twist”(helical phase pattern)
of light beams, has recently gained interest due to its potential applications in many diverse …

Atmospheric turbulence effects on the performance of a free space optical link employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing

Y Ren, H Huang, G Xie, N Ahmed, Y Yan, BI Erkmen… - Optics letters, 2013 - opg.optica.org
We experimentally investigate the performance of an orbital angular momentum (OAM)
multiplexed free space optical (FSO) communication link through emulated atmospheric …

Partially coherent beam propagation in atmospheric turbulence

G Gbur - JOSA A, 2014 - opg.optica.org
Partially coherent beams hold much promise in free-space optical communications for their
resistance to the deleterious effects of atmospheric turbulence. We describe the basic …

Adaptive-optics-based simultaneous pre-and post-turbulence compensation of multiple orbital-angular-momentum beams in a bidirectional free-space optical link

Y Ren, G Xie, H Huang, N Ahmed, Y Yan, L Li, C Bao… - Optica, 2014 - opg.optica.org
As a recently explored property of light, orbital angular momentum (OAM) has potential in
enabling multiplexing of multiple data-carrying beams, to increase the transmission capacity …

Fading reduction by aperture averaging and spatial diversity in optical wireless systems

MA Khalighi, N Schwartz, N Aitamer… - Journal of optical …, 2009 - opg.optica.org
Atmospheric turbulence can cause a significant performance degradation in free-space
optical communication systems. It is well known that the effect of turbulence can be reduced …

Scintillation of Airy beam arrays in atmospheric turbulence

Y Gu, G Gbur - Optics Letters, 2010 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the scintillation properties of Airy beam arrays in atmospheric turbulence. By
utilizing the “self-bending” propagation property of Airy beams, the constituent beamlets …

Atmospheric turbulence compensation in orbital angular momentum communications: Advances and perspectives

S Li, S Chen, C Gao, AE Willner, J Wang - Optics Communications, 2018 - Elsevier
Orbital angular momentum (OAM)-carrying beams have recently generated considerable
interest due to their potential use in communication systems to increase transmission …

Adaptive optics compensation of multiple orbital angular momentum beams propagating through emulated atmospheric turbulence

Y Ren, G Xie, H Huang, C Bao, Y Yan, N Ahmed… - Optics letters, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We propose an adaptive optics compensation scheme to simultaneously compensate
multiple orbital angular momentum (OAM) beams propagating through atmospheric …