Performance Analysis of a Free-Space Optical Code Division Multiple Access through Atmospheric Turbulence Channel

In this paper, the effect of atmospheric turbulence on bit error probability in free-space optical CDMA scheme with Sequence Inverse Keyed (SIK) optical correlator receiver is analyzed. Here Intensity Modulation scheme is considered for transmission. The turbulence induced fading is described by the newly introduced gamma-gamma pdf[1] as a tractable mathematical model for atmospheric turbulence. Results are evaluated with Gold and Kasami code & it is shown that Gold sequence can be used for more efficient transmission than Kasami sequence in an atmospheric turbulence channel.

Authors:

• Tanveer Ahmed Bhuiyan
• Samiul Hayder Choudhury
• Asif Al - Rasheed
• S.P. Majumder

Keywords:

• CDMA
• gamma-gamma pdf
• atmospheric turbulence
• Kasami
• Gold
• SIK
• BER
• Power Penalty
• FSO.

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