Atmospheric compensation in free space optical communication with simulated annealing algorithm

As we know that the conventional adaptive optics (AO) systems can compensate atmospheric turbulence in free space optical (FSO) communication system. Since in strong scintillation conditions, wave-front measurements based on phase-conjugation principle are undesired. A novel global optimization simulated annealing (SA) algorithm is proposed in this paper to compensate wave-front aberration. With global optimization characteristics, SA algorithm is better than stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) and other algorithms that already exist. Related simulations are conducted and the results show that the SA algorithm can significantly improve performance in FSO communication system and is better than SPGD algorithm with the increase of coupling efficiency.