Publication Date:
2019-06-27
Description:
A technique is described for simulating the random modulation imposed by atmospheric scintillation and transmitter pointing jitter on a direct-detection optical communication system. The system is capable of providing signal fading statistics which obey log-normal, beta, Rayleigh, Ricean, or chi-square density functions. Experimental tests of the performance of the channel simulator are presented.
Keywords:
COMMUNICATIONS
Type:
NASA-TN-D-7641
,
G-7439
Format:
application/pdf