Browsing by Author "Ata, Yalcin"

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Performance of M-Ary Pulse Position Modulation for Aeronautical Uplink Communications in an Atmospheric Turbulent Medium
(Optical Soc Amer, 2019) Baykal, Yahya; Gokce, Muhsin Caner; Ata, Yalcin
This paper discusses the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of an aeronautical uplink optical wireless communication system (OWCS) when a Gaussian beam is employed and the M-ary pulse position modulation technique is used in an atmospheric turbulent medium. Weak turbulence conditions and log-normal distribution are utilized. The Gaussian beam is assumed to propagate on a slant path, the transmitter being ground-based, and the airborne receiver is on-axis positioned. Variations of BER are obtained against the variations in the link length, Gaussian beam source size, zenith angle, wind speed, wavelength, modulation order, data bit rate, equivalent load resistor, avalanche photodetector gain, and detector quantum efficiency. It is observed that the performance of the aeronautical uplink OWCS is affected from atmospheric turbulence significantly. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America
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Performance Analysis of M-Ary Pulse Position Modulation in Strong Oceanic Turbulence
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2018) Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin; Gokce, Muhsin Caner
In this paper, we consider an underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system which consists of an M-ary pulse position modulated (PPM) Gaussian optical beam at the transmitter and an avalanche photodiode (APD) at the receiver. In strong oceanic turbulence, we aimed at investigating the system performance in terms of bit error rate (BER) by the help of gamma-gamma channel model. For this purpose, the average power and the aperture averaged scintillation at the finite sized detector are derived by using the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle and the asymptotic Rytov theory, respectively. BER variations are examined versus the average APD gain, modulation order, bit rate as well as the oceanic turbulence parameters, i.e., the rate of dissipation of kinetic energy per unit mass of fluid, the rate of dissipation of mean-squared temperature and the ratio of temperature to salinity contributions to the refractive index spectrum.
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Effects of Adaptive Optics on Bit Error Rate of M-Ary Ppm Oceanic Optical Wireless Communication Systems With Aperture Averaging in Strong Turbulence
(Iop Publishing Ltd, 2021) Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin; Gokce, Muhsin Caner
Scintillation is the result of oceanic turbulence reducing the bit error rate (BER) performance of oceanic optical wireless communication (OWC) systems. The scintillation, also known as intensity fluctuations, occurs due to the turbulence-induced wavefront deformations. The correction of deformations by adaptive optics (AO) reduces the scintillation effect of turbulence and results in improved BER performance. In this paper, an oceanic OWC (OOWC) system that has a Gaussian laser beam at the transmitter, finite-sized circular aperture at the receiver, employing M-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) and operating in strong oceanic turbulence, is considered. Improvement in the BER performance of the OOWC system is examined with the implementation of AO correction. Comparison of BER performances between the AO and non-adaptive optics OOWC systems is shown by calculating the metric defined. BER of M-ary PPM OOWC links is evaluated over gamma-gamma fading channels. The modified Rytov theory together with the Zernike filter functions is used to find the AO corrected aperture averaged scintillation index where extended Huygens-Fresnel technique is used to obtain the average received signal power.
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Flat-Topped Beam Transmittance in Anisotropic Non-Kolmogorov Turbulent Marine Atmosphere
(Spie-soc Photo-optical instrumentation Engineers, 2017) Ata, Yalcin; Baykal, Yahya
Turbulence affects optical propagation, and, as a result, the intensity is attenuated along the path of propagation. The attenuation becomes significant when the turbulence becomes stronger. Transmittance is a measure indicating how much power is collected at the receiver after the optical wave propagates in the turbulent medium. The on-axis transmittance is formulated when a flat-topped optical beam propagates in a marine atmosphere experiencing anisotropic non-Kolmogorov turbulence. Variations in the transmittance are evaluated versus the beam source size, beam number, link distance, power law exponent, anisotropy factor, and structure constant. It is found that larger beam source sizes and beam numbers yield higher transmittance values; however, as the link distance, power law exponent, anisotropy factor, or structure constant increase, transmittance values are lowered. Our results will help in the performance evaluations of optical wireless communication and optical imaging systems operating in a marine atmosphere. (C) 2017 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
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Laser Array Beam Scintillation in Oceanic Turbulence
(Ieee, 2020) Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin; Gokce, Muhsin C.
In this study, on-axis scintillation of laser array beam in oceanic turbulent medium is investigated. By using Rytov method, scintillation index variations are reported in connection with the propagation distance, rate of dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy, microscale length, rate of dissipation of the mean squared temperature, salinity ratio, radius of the ring of beamlets which compose the beam array, source size and number of beamlets. Results show that turbulence effect on the laser beam increases with the propagation distance, microscale length, rate of dissipation of the mean squared temperature, salinity ratio, array radius, source size and number of beamlets but decreases when rate of dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy increases.
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M-Ary Pulse Position Modulation Performance in Non-Kolmogorov Turbulent Atmosphere
(Optical Soc Amer, 2018) Baykal, Yahya; Gokce, Muhsin C.; Ata, Yalcin
The performance of atmospheric optical wireless communication systems in terms of the bit error rate (BER) is investigated when a Gaussian laser beam propagating in non-Kolmogorov turbulence is M-ary pulse-position-modulated (PPM). BER variations against the changes in different parameters such as the non-Kolmogorov power law exponent, symbol number, data bit rate, avalanche photodetector gain, equivalent load resistor, detector quantum efficiency, wavelength, turbulence structure constant, and the Gaussian beam source size are analyzed. Making the design of the PPM optical wireless communication system able to operate in a non-Kolmogorov atmosphere will give better BER performance if the parameters are taken into account in line with the trends presented in our results. (C) 2018 Optical Society of America
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Effect of Anisotropy on Performance of M-Ary Phase Shift Keying Subcarrier Intensity-Modulated Optical Wireless Communication Links Operating in Strong Oceanic Turbulence
(Iop Publishing Ltd, 2020) Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin; Gokce, Muhsin Caner
In strong oceanic turbulence, the performance of M-ary phase shift keying subcarrier intensity-modulated optical wireless communication (OWC) links is investigated in terms of the bit-error-rate (BER) by considering the effect of anisotropy of the oceanic channel. To calculate the BER of the OWC link, a gamma-gamma statistical channel model is adopted. The extended Huygens-Fresnel principle and the asymptotic Rytov theory are used to obtain the received optical power and the large-scale and small-scale log-intensity variances, respectively. Our graphical illustrations include the BER versus anisotropic factor for various system parameters such as the modulation order, filter bandwidth, link distance, peak amplitude of each subcarrier and the oceanic turbulence parameters.
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Turbulence Effect on Transmittance of Atmospheric Optics Telecommunication System Using Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2011) Ata, Yalcin; Baykal, Yahya
The effect of atmospheric turbulence on atmospheric optics telecommunication links employing dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) systems is examined. For this purpose, transmittance obtained by using the MODTRAN (MODerate resolution atmospheric TRANsmission) code is modified by the transmittance due to turbulence when the incidence is a partially coherent optical beam. The spanned wavelengths cover the range employed in a practical DWDM system operating in the range of 1550 nm. The effect of turbulence is manifest as a decrease in the transmittance calculated by MODTRAN, being more effective when the incidence becomes less coherent.
Effects of Receiver Diversity on Bit Error Rate of Underwater Optical Wireless Communication Systems in Weak Oceanic Turbulence
(Springer, 2025) Gokce, Muhsin Caner; Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin
The receiver spatial diversity techniques are employed in underwater optical wireless communication (OWC) systems to mitigate oceanic turbulence, improving the bit error rate performance. In this paper, we consider an OWC system employing a binary phase-shift keying (BPSK) modulated Gaussian beam at the transmitter and employing receiver spatial diversity at the receiver. The techniques for receiver spatial diversity systems considered in the study are selection combining (SC), equal gain combining (EGC), and the maximum ratio combining (MRC). The bit error rate (BER) performance of the OWC system operating in weak oceanic turbulence is investigated by calculating the Gaussian beam's turbulence-induced scintillation index and the received optical intensity. It is found that the receiver spatial diversity techniques, especially EGC and MRC, are very effective for reducing the BER of an OWC system in weak oceanic turbulence. Furthermore, the BER performance of the underwater OWC system sees an improvement with an increase in the number of photodetectors or a decrease in the level of oceanic turbulence. Moreover, an improvement in the photodetector responsivity or a reduction in the system's noise factor contributes to achieving a favorable BER performance.
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Tissue Turbulence and Its Effects on Optical Waves: a Review
(Elsevier, 2023) Ata, Yalcin; Baykal, Yahya; Gokce, Muhsin Caner
Tissue turbulence and the effects of tissue turbulence on the propagation of optical waves are reviewed. After the introduction of a survey on the reported research in this area, various topics are elaborated. These topics include the spectrum of tissue turbulence, propagation of light in the tissue, average intensity, beam spread that occur at the receiver plane in the tissue. Other entities examined are the signal to noise ratio (SNR), intensity correlation, beam wander, mutual coherence function and the spectral degree of coherence. Furthermore, spectral change, cross spectral density, spectral correlation function, scintillation, bit error rate (BER), coupling efficiency in tissue turbulence are investigated. The refractive index structure of tissues, imaging in the presence of turbulence in the tissue, scattering, absorption and polarization aspects in tissues are reported. Finally, optical coherence tomography applications in turbulent tissues are reviewed.
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Multimode Beam Propagation Through Atmospheric Turbulence
(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2024) Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin; Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Gokce, Muhsin Caner
The investigation focuses on studying the propagation characteristics of multimode lasers in the turbulent amosphere. By employing the Huygens-Fresnel integral, we develop analytical formulations for various propagation parameters. These include the average intensity distribution, kurtosis parameter, beam spread, and the average transmittance of multimode beams in turbulent atmosphere. Our findings reveal that as the propagation distance or the structure constant of the atmosphere increases, i.e., turbulence becomes stronger, the kurtosis parameter and the beam spread increase. The multimode beam exhibits a Gaussian like intensity profile when the propagation distance is significantly increased or when the structure constant becomes sufficiently large. For the case of the Gaussian beam, the kurtosis parameter is found to be 3. The multimode beam's kurtosis parameter rises as the turbulence becomes stronger and eventually approaches 3. Raising the mode content leads to a rise in the average transmittance; however, it leads to a decline in the Kurtosis parameter and the beam spread.
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Transmittance of Multi Gaussian Optical Beams for Uplink Applications in Atmospheric Turbulence
(Ieee-inst Electrical Electronics Engineers inc, 2015) Ata, Yalcin; Baykal, Yahya
On-axis slant path uplink transmittance (used in short as transmittance throughout the text) for multi Gaussian optical beam in Kolmogorov atmospheric turbulent medium is investigated. It is observed that for both the flat-topped and the annular beams, as the propagation distance, wind speed and the zenith angle increase, the transmittance decreases. The transmittance of flat-topped beams increases when the number of beams, source size or the wavelength increases. For the annular beam, when the outer/inner beam size ratio is kept constant, larger source sizes yield larger transmittance values. Transmittance of the thicker annular beams is found to be larger than the transmittance of the thinner annular beams.
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Anisotropy Effect on Multi-Gaussian Beam Propagation in Turbulent Ocean
(Osa-optical Soc, 2018) Ata, Yalcin; Baykal, Yahya
Average transmittance of multi-Gaussian (flat-topped and annular) optical beams in an anisotropic turbulent ocean is examined analytically based on the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle. Transmittance variations depending on the link length, anisotropy factor, salinity and temperature contribution factor, source size, beam flatness order of flat-topped beam, Kolmogorov microscale length, rate of dissipation of turbulent kinetic energy, rate of dissipation of the mean squared temperature, and thickness of annular beam are examined. Results show that all these parameters have effects in various forms on the average transmittance in an anisotropic turbulent ocean. Hence, the performance of optical wireless communication systems can be improved by taking into account the variation of average transmittance versus the above parameters.
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Field Correlations of Multimode Optical Beams in Underwater Turbulence
(Optica Publishing Group, 2024) Baykal, Yahya; Gokce, Muhsin C.; Ata, Yalcin; Gercekcioglu, Hamza
For multimode optical beams, field correlations at the receiver plane are found in underwater turbulence. Field correlations of single high order beams in underwater turbulence are special cases of our formulation. Variations of field correlations against the underwater turbulence parameters and the diagonal length from various receiver points are examined for different multimode and single high order beams. Stronger underwater turbulence is found to reduce the field correlations of multimode and single high order optical beams. The results will be of help in heterodyne detection analysis and fiber coupling efficiency in an underwater medium experiencing turbulence. (c) 2024 Optica Publishing Group
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Field Correlation of Spherical Wave in Underwater Turbulent Medium
(Optical Soc Amer, 2014) Ata, Yalcin; Baykal, Yahya
The absolute field correlation of the spherical wave in an underwater turbulent medium is investigated at the receiver plane by using the extended Huygens-Fresnel principle. Results denote that increase in the propagation distance, the rate of dissipation of the mean squared temperature, and microscale length cause reduction in the absolute field correlation. Field correlation increases when the wavelength and the rate of dissipation of the turbulent kinetic energy and parameters of temperature and salinity contribution to the turbulence decrease. Salinity dominated turbulence corrupts the absolute field correlation much more in comparison to the temperature dominated turbulence. Change in the receiver coordinate is found not to affect the absolute field correlation. (C) 2014 Optical Society of America
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Performance of M-Ary Pulse Position Modulated Optical Wireless Communications Systems in the Marine Atmosphere
(Optical Soc Amer, 2021) Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin; Gokce, Muhsin C.
The marine atmosphere exhibits different turbulence spectrum characteristics when compared to the turbulence spectra of the land atmosphere and underwater medium. The performance of M-ary pulse position modulated (PPM) optical wireless communications (OWC) systems operating in the marine atmosphere, as measured by the bit error rate (BER), is studied here. In our investigation, the scintillation index and the average intensity in marine atmospheric turbulence are used. The variations of BER performance are reported against the marine atmospheric turbulence parameters for various values of the average current gain of the avalanche photodetector (APD), data bit rate of theOWClink, and M value of the M-ary PPM. (C) 2021 Optical Society of America
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Signal-To Ratio With Adaptive Optics Compensation in Non-Kolmogorov Weak Turbulent Atmosphere
(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2021) Baykal, Yahya; Gokce, Muhsin Caner; Ata, Yalcin
This study investigates the average signal-to-noise ratio < SNR > at the shot-noise limited receiver of an optical wireless communication system (OWC) that uses collimated Gaussian beam with adaptive optics correction in non-Kolmogorov weak turbulent atmosphere. < SNR > and the variation in the percentage < SNR > are calculated and the results are presented against various adaptive optics correction modes, non-Kolmogorov power-law exponent, receiver aperture size, Gaussian beam source size, photodetector quantum efficiency, electronic bandwidth, link length, and turbulence strength. Adaptive optics correction is analyzed for tilt, defocus, astigmatism, coma and trefoil modes and their variations. The effects of adaptive optics compensation are examined that cause an increase in SNR, hence improve the performance of an OWC system using collimated Gaussian beam and operating in the non-Kolmogorov weak turbulent atmosphere.
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Adaptive Optics Effect on Performance of Bpsk-Sim Oceanic Optical Wireless Communication Systems With Aperture Averaging in Weak Turbulence
(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2020) Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin; Gokce, Muhsin Caner
Turbulence-induced wavefront deformations cause the irradiance of an optical signal to fluctuate resulting a in serious degradation in the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of optical wireless communication (OWC) system. Adaptive optics is an effective technique to compensate for the wavefront aberrations to reduce the fluctuations in the received intensity. In this paper, we investigate how the adaptive optics technique affects the BER performance of an oceanic OWC (OOWC) system employing binary phase shift keying-subcarrier intensity modulation (BPSK-SIM) and aperture averaging. To evaluate BER performance in weak oceanic turbulence, the required entities such as the received optical power captured by a circular aperture and the aperture averaged scintillation index measuring the fluctuations in the received irradiance are derived. The effect of adaptive optics correction of various wavefront aberrations (i.e., tilt, defocus, astigmatism and the coma) on the BER performance is illustrated and the performance of the adaptive optics-OOWC system is compared to that of a non-adaptive optics OOWC system by the metric defined. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Effect of Anisotropy on Bit Error Rate for an Asymmetrical Gaussian Beam in a Turbulent Ocean
(Optical Soc Amer, 2018) Ata, Yalcin; Baykal, Yahya
Effect of anisotropy on the average bit error rate (BER) is investigated when an asymmetrical Gaussian beam is propagated in an anisotropic turbulent ocean. BER is found to decrease in response to an increase in anisotropy levels in the x and y directions. Higher average signal-to-noise ratio, wavelength, and microscale length yield smaller BER values. BER starts to rise with an increase in the asymmetrical beam source size in the x and y directions, source size ratio in the x and y directions, salinity and temperature contribution factor, the dissipation of the mean squared temperature, and the propagation distance. At the fixed source size ratio in the x and y directions of the asymmetrical beam source size, larger source sizes increase BER. An anisotropic turbulent ocean seems to exhibit better BER values as compared with an isotropic turbulent ocean. (c) 2018 Optical Society of America
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Adaptive Optics Compensation of M-Ary Pulse Position Modulated Communication Systems in Anisotropic Non-Kolmogorov Turbulent Atmosphere
(Elsevier, 2021) Ata, Yalcin; Baykal, Yahya; Gokce, Muhsin Caner
Adaptive optics compensation effect on the performance of an optical wireless communication system (OWC) employing M-ary pulse position modulation (PPM) scheme in anisotropic non-Kolmogorov turbulent atmosphere is investigated. Avalanche photodetector (APD) is used at the receiver side and log-normal channel that models the weak turbulence conditions is utilized. Anisotropy, generally resulting in better performance in OWC systems operating in the turbulent medium, combined with the adaptive optics applications will enhance the bit-error-rate (BER) of the OWC systems significantly. Results are obtained depending on various parameters for both the turbulent atmosphere and the receiver. Our work gives OWC system designers a perspective to optimize their design.