RT Journal Article
T1 Impact of angular pointing error on BER performance of underwater optical wireless links
A1 Boluda-Ruiz, Rubén
A1 García-Zambrana, Antonio
A1 Castillo-Vázquez, Beatriz
A1 Hranilovic, Steve
K1 Optoelectrónica
K1 Fotónica
AB Even in clear ocean water, underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) is impaired not only by absorption and scattering, but also by oceanic turbulence and dynamic pointing errors which result in a fading channel, degrading the bit error rate (BER) performance. In this paper, for the first time, we quantify analytically the trade-off between geometric loss and misalignment in underwater scattering channels. A novel geometric loss model is developed which is used to compute the average BER in the presence of absorption and scattering over salinity-induced oceanic turbulence channels. Our findings suggest that UOWC systems are less sensitive to angular pointing errors due to jitter since scattering is able to alleviate such a fading effect at the expense of a higher attenuation due to geometric spread. Monte Carlo simulation results are further included to verify the developed BER expression which is valid over a wide range of signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR). Finally, the impact of inter-symbol interference (ISI) is also quantified by measuring the optical power penalty.
PB Optica Publishing Group
YR 2020
FD 2020-11-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36329
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/36329
LA eng
NO Rubén Boluda-Ruiz, Antonio García-Zambrana, Beatriz Castillo-Vázquez, and Steve Hranilovic, "Impact of angular pointing error on BER performance of underwater optical wireless links," Opt. Express 28, 34606-34622 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.405942
NO Spanish MICINN Project (PID2019-107792GB-I00); Programa Operativo I+D+i FEDER Andalucia 2014-2020 (UMA18-FEDERJA-099, P18-RTJ-3343).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 22 ene 2026