Capacity of wireless optical communications |
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Authors: | Haas SM Shapiro JH |
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Affiliation: | AlphaSimplex Group, Cambridge, MA, USA; |
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Abstract: | We consider the ergodic capacity and capacity-versus-outage probability of direct-detection optical communication through a turbulent atmosphere using multiple transmit and receive apertures. We assume shot-noise-limited operation in which detector outputs are doubly stochastic Poisson processes whose rates are proportional to the sum of the transmitted powers, scaled by lognormal random fades, plus a background noise. In the high and low signal-to-background ratio regimes, we show that the ergodic capacity of this fading channel equals or exceeds that for a channel with deterministic path gains. Furthermore, knowledge of these path gains is not necessary to achieve capacity when the signal-to-background ratio is high. In the low signal-to-background ratio regime, path-gain knowledge provides minimal capacity improvement when using a moderate number of transmit apertures. We also develop expressions for the capacity-versus-outage probability in the high and low signal-to-background ratio regimes, by means of a moment-matching approximation to the distribution for the sum of lognormal random variables. Monte Carlo simulations show that these capacity-versus-outage approximations are quite accurate for moderate numbers of apertures. |
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