Atmospheric bistatic communication channels with scattering. Part 2. Field experiments in 2013

Abstract

Results of field experiments on the influence of atmospheric conditions and some instrumental characteristics on the quality of information transfer in a bistatic optoelectronic communication system (OECS) operating in the visible wavelengths range are considered. The length of the atmospheric channel reached 17 km. Radiation of a copper bromide vapor laser with a wavelength of 510.6 nm was used as a signal source. It is shown that bistatic or over the horizon OECSs can operate both under the conditions of a cloudy and cloud free atmosphere. Average values and standard deviations of communication errors were estimated under different atmospheric optical conditions when some characteristics of individual instrumentation units varied. Keywords: bistatic optoelectronic communication systems, field experiments, optical and meteorological state of the atmosphere