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Estimating the Performance of Free Space Optical Communication in Rain Weather Conditions Using Various Models and Modified Duobinary Return to Zero Technique

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Free space optical communication (FSO) system has remarkably gained importance of late due to the various advantages associated with it. However, before deployment of FSO communication system, an understanding of the laser beam scintillation due to the atmospheric as well as other weather-induced losses need to be understood. This paper mainly focuses on simulative performance analysis of an FSO system under rain conditions using Optisystems commercial software and rainfall data. Thus, the available models which are the Suriza, Carbonnea, Japan and Samir models were used to determine the rainfall-induced attenuation for a given rainfall rate. Unlike in the previous articles that only used on off keying as the modulation scheme at the transmitter, we have used modified duobinary return to zero (MDRZ) modulation. Further, to improve the MDRZ-based FSO performance in rain conditions, we have used the single-input multiple-output (SIMO) concept with equal gain combining (EGC) at the receiver and again proved that the improvement in BER, Q factor and received optical power suggests that MDRZ-based SIMO FSO communication results in a remarkable improvement.

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Magidi, S., Pondani, T. Estimating the Performance of Free Space Optical Communication in Rain Weather Conditions Using Various Models and Modified Duobinary Return to Zero Technique. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., India, Sect. A Phys. Sci. 92, 265–272 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40010-020-00715-8

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