Performance Analysis of Satellite-to-Ground Coherent Optical Communication System with Aperture Averaging

Abstract

The satellite-to-ground optical communication system suffers from atmosphere turbulence severely. It is well-known that the coherent detection can increase the receiver sensitivity and performing aperture averaging can reduce the scintillation caused by the atmosphere turbulence. In this paper, the bit error rate, the outage probability and the average capacity of a coherent satellite-to-ground optical communication downlink with aperture averaging are analyzed. The Log-normal atmosphere turbulence model and BPSK (Binary Phase Shift Keying) modulation is employed. The analyzing focuses on the improvement of aperture averaging with different atmospheric conditions and zenith angles of the satellite. The bit error rate performance based on measuring data is given too. The results demonstrate the bit error rate and the outage probability can be reduced and the average capacity can be improved by aperture averaging efficiently. When the turbulence is stronger and the zenith angle is larger, the effect of aperture averaging is more obvious. The aperture averaging effect on BER (Bit Error Rate) is better than the effect on average capacity.

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