Atmospheric Turbulence Suppression Algorithm Based on APD Adaptive Gain Control for FSO Links of 5G Floating Base Stations

Abstract

The data transmission between 5G floating base stations will be an important application area of the free space optical (FSO) link, but the problem of atmospheric disturbance will directly affect the application effect. An atmospheric turbulence suppression algorithm based on avalanche photodiode adaptive gain control (APDAGC) for the laser transmission terminal was proposed to suppress atmospheric turbulence. The given design mechanism and experimental results demonstrate its function to improve the performance of FSO. When APDAGC is over 1 km FSO, the variance of intensity fluctuation is lowered from 0.046 to 0.009, with the bit error rate reduced from 4.82E-6 to 1E-12. Comparatively, as APDAGC is over 6.5 km FSO, the variance of intensity fluctuation is decreased from 1.767 to 0.376, with the bit error rate varying from 4.6E-2 to 2.4E-4. Moreover, it was used for the first FSO transmission of 5G floating base station signals on an airship platform.