Characterization of Fog Attenuation for Free Space Optical Communication Link (original) (raw)

This paper presents the effect of fog attenuation on free space optical (FSO) communication. The analysis focuses on Al-Naboulsi model (advection, radiation) fog coefficient and effects on visibility. The performance comparison is also done for visibilities (0.5, 1, 5, 10, 25, and 50) km. The result shows that the performance of specific attenuation 50 km is better than the other visibilities in both performance parameters (advection, radiation). On the other the effect of fog attenuation on optical communication link is performance, receiver signal power, link margin, data rate and signal to noise ratio (S/N) are the major interesting design parameters in the current study.