REFERENCES

1 Aperture averaging eects on free space optical communication

For small aperture size, aperture averaging eect is poor and measured scintillation index is high. As
the measured coherence time is small we can use small interleaver for coding or diversity application.
If the aperture size is large, then scintillation eect reduces due to aperture averaging. The measured
scintillation index is less for a large aperture. However, the measured coherence time is large for a
larger aperture, which means channel variation is slow and if we want to use coding and diversity
technique then interleaver size will be large.
In [1]the author study the feasibility of exploiting time diversity, and said that when the aperture
size is relatively small, channel coding and interleaving can be performed over long enough frames
(with respect to the channel coherence time )or delayed copies of data streams can be used in order to
benet from some time diversity. For large aperture size, however, exploiting time diversity becomes
practically infeasible. The use of a relatively large aperture size results in a large eective channel
coherence time. Consequently, to benet from time diversity, interleaver sizes that are too large have
to used or to large delays between multiple transmissions of a data stream should be introduced. This,
in turn, imposes delay latencies that are too long and necessitates the use of huge memory sizes at
the receiver. As a result, exploiting temporal diversity remains dicult from a practical point of view
for relatively large aperture diameter.
References
[1] M.-A. Khalighi, N. Schwartz, N. Aitamer, and S. Bourennane, Fading reduction by aperture averaging and spatial diversity in
optical wireless systems, Optical Communications and Networking, IEEE/OSA Journal of, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 580 593, nov.
2009.
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