6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Performance Evaluation of Channel Coding and Aperture Averaging for the Satellite-To-Ground Optical Communications with APD Receivers

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158282,
        author={Huixi Liao and Qingjun Zhang and Jing Ma and Liying Tan},
        title={Performance Evaluation of Channel Coding and Aperture Averaging for the Satellite-To-Ground Optical Communications with APD Receivers},
        proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2012},
        month={3},
        keywords={channel coding aperture averaging satellite-to-ground optical communications atmospheric turbulence},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158282}
    }
    
  • Huixi Liao
    Qingjun Zhang
    Jing Ma
    Liying Tan
    Year: 2012
    Performance Evaluation of Channel Coding and Aperture Averaging for the Satellite-To-Ground Optical Communications with APD Receivers
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158282
Huixi Liao1,*, Qingjun Zhang1, Jing Ma2, Liying Tan2
  • 1: China Academy of Space Technology
  • 2: Harbin Institute of Technology
*Contact email: liaohuixi@yahoo.cn

Abstract

In this paper, the synergy of the channel coding and aperture averaging is applied to the downlink optical channel for the low earth orbit (LEO) satellite. Bit error rates (BER) of the convolutional code and low-density parity code (LDPC) are evaluated versus different diameters for the optical systems with avalanche photodiode (APD) receivers. Results indicate that when the temporal correlation time τ0=10 ms, the convolutional code satisfying the real-time delay constraint has practically no interest, because it doesn't show significant performance improvement over the no-coding case. Moreover, the aperture averaging is shown to be robust across the a large range of zenith angles ζ≤80o .