Abstract

Quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) is an exciting technology to accomplish a high communication data rate without increasing the system bandwidth, which can undoubtedly greatly improve the performance of free-space optical (FSO) communication systems. With the increase of experimental and theoretical results about atmospheric turbulence, scientists have confirmed that the anisotropy and non-Kolmogorov property cannot be ignored for atmospheric turbulence. In this paper, utilizing the new anisotropic non-Kolmogorov (ANK) turbulence spectrum models for the satellite links that are applicable to both vertical and slant links, we derive the average bit error rate (BER) expression of rectangular QAM for a Gaussian-beam transmission through the weak ANK ground-to-satellite uplink under the influences of both scintillation and beam wander. Numerical results display that, when the zenith angle is less than a certain angle, the average BER of the ground-to-satellite uplink decays with the enhancement of the anisotropic factor, but while the zenith angle is greater than the certain angle, the contrary trend will occur. Our work will benefit the design optimization of QAM/FSO communication systems in ANK satellite links.

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