Abstract
In this paper, the outage probability of maritime free-space optical
communication system is analyzed. Maritime turbulence channel is modeled
by Lognormal distribution. Channel model includes the combined effect of
turbulence, pointing error, angle-of-arrival (AOA) fluctuations, and
attenuation. Pointing error and AOA fluctuations are assumed to be
Beckmann and Rayleigh distributed, respectively. Turbulence power
spectrum is considered to present the Kolmogorov characteristics and
Rytov variance of a propagating Gaussian beam is obtained. The
probability density function, cumulative distribution function and
outage probability of maritime communication channel are obtained
analytically. Outage performance of a maritime communication link is
given depending on various parameters of the maritime environment, the
Gaussian beam, and the communication system.