Abstract

Atmospheric turbulence causes severe impairment of FSO communication link. Existing model underestimates the beam wander effect in high turbulence regime. In this paper, we model each turbulent eddy as a thin dielectric lens with Gaussian shaped refractive index profile and assume there are several sheets of eddies throughout the propagation path. We consider uniformly distributed eddy positions in a laminar sheet with Gamma distributed eddy sizes and refractive index fluctuations. We calculate mean beam wander and link availability for a given aperture size in high turbulence regime. Our simulation results show good concordance with the analytical results.

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