scholarly journals Design of a Free Space Optical Communication System for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Command and Control Link

Photonics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Yiqing Zhang ◽  
Yuehui Wang ◽  
Yangyang Deng ◽  
Axin Du ◽  
Jianguo Liu
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Optical Communication ◽  
Free Space ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Free Space Optical Communication ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Momentum Effect ◽  
Space Optical Communication ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
And Control

An electromagnetic immune Free Space Optical Communication (FSOC) system for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) command and control link is introduced in this paper. The system uses the scheme of omnidirectional receiving and ground scanning transmitting. It has a strong anti-turbulence ability by using a large area detector and short-focus lens. The design of omnidirectional communication improves the ability of anti-vibration and link establishment. Pure static reception has no momentum effect on the platform. The receiver is miniaturized under no use of a gimbal mirror system, beacon camera system, Four-Quadrant Photodetector (QPD) and multi-level lens system. The system can realize omnidirectional reception and the communication probability in 1 s is greater than 99.99%. This design strengthens the ability of the FSOC system, so it can be applied in the UAV command and control, the satellite submarine communication and other occasions where the size of the platform is restricted.

Simulation modeling of free space optical communication system

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Sharma ◽  
Rajinder Singh Kaler
Keyword(s):  
Optical Communication ◽  
Free Space ◽  
Simulation Modeling ◽  
Additive White Gaussian Noise ◽  
Wireless Channel ◽  
Free Space Optical Communication ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Free Space Optical ◽  
Wireless Signal ◽  
Space Optical Communication

Abstract The optical wireless communication has been designed by developing a model with the support of MATLAB simulator using Simulink where channel considered to be a free space. In this model, Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel has used to analyze bit error rate (BER) and power loss of optical wireless signal at receiver. The consequence due to turbulence in atmosphere of free space on transmitted signal has examined. The BER and signal power have extremely ruined on rigorous atmospheric unstable condition even for a short distance in an optical wireless channel. The BER of less than 10−3 has been achieved for free space optical communication considered to be an excellent BER for FSO.

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