Performance analysis of multihop coherent OFDM free-space optical communication systems

This paper proposes a multihop coherent orthogonal frequency division multiplexing free space optical (OFDM-FSO) communication system model based on a relay transmission mode of decode and forward (DF) with the Gamma-Gamma channel. In the study of atmospheric statistical model, mainly considering the combined action by the following three aspects, they are the light intensity scintillation caused by the atmospheric turbulence, the pointing error caused the transmitter and the receiver without aiming at each other and the path loss. We derived closed-form expressions of outage probability and symbol error rate of the multihop coherent OFDM-FSO system with serial DF relay transmission. We simulated and analyzed the influence of the atmospheric turbulence, the modulation order, the beam width and the jitter factor on the communication interruption performance and bit error performance of the multihop coherent OFDM-FSO system with different number of hops. ©2015 Optical Society of America