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Article Mitigation of Laser Beam Fluctuation and Performance of Probability of Fade in Weak Ocean Turbulence(Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2026) Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Baykal, YahyaUtilizing the Rytov method in weakly turbulent oceanic medium, minimum scintillation index of sinusoidal Gaussian (SG) laser beams, named as the optimum beam (OB), is investigated for the underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC). Horizontal link between any underwater vehicles is considered. The formulation of the on-axis scintillation index of these beams is derived analytically, and the minimum scintillation index is determined with suitable adjustment of the complex displacement parameters. The complex displacement parameters are identified and tabulated for the selected propagation distance and source size. Obtained scintillation index results are drawn against the propagation length and source size. When compared with the plane, spherical, collimated, focused Gaussian, cos-Gaussian and cosh-Gaussian beams, OB is found to possess essential advantage. Additionally, with the obtained scintillation index values, probabilities of fade of these beams are calculated and their behaviors are also presented. OB also has a significant advantage when considering the fade probability.Article Citation - WoS: 5Citation - Scopus: 6Bit Error Rate of M-Pulse Position Modulated Laser Beams for Vertical Links Operating in Weak Oceanic Turbulence(Iop Publishing Ltd, 2024) Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Baykal, YahyaThe on-axis scintillation index of laser beams is investigated by employing the Rytov method in a weakly turbulent oceanic medium for up/downlink coupling of laser communication between any underwater vehicles or divers. For vertical links, the formulation of the on-axis scintillation index of laser beams is derived analytically and evaluated for plane, collimated Gaussian and spherical beams in specific mediums, including the Atlantic Ocean at mid and low latitudes associating temperature and salinity changes at low latitudes, at mid latitude-summer and at mid latitude-winter. Using the scintillation index, bit error rate (BER) performance of M-pulse position modulation is investigated for these types of laser beams. The variations of the scintillation index against the uplink/downlink propagation distances, source size and zenith angle are examined, and BER variations versus the Kolmogorov microscale and the symbol orders, and results are compared. It is noted that the behavior of the scintillation index that depends on the relative strength of temperature and salinity fluctuations which changes in depth, is different for uplink/downlink and for each latitude due to its distinct characteristics. The source size that minimizes the scintillation index values is in the range of about 0.1 cm-0.2 cm for all latitudes.Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 2Scintillation Index and Outage Probability of Vortex Gaussian Beams for Horizontal Links in Weak Atmospheric Turbulence(Iop Publishing Ltd, 2024) Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Baykal, YahyaUsing the Rytov method, the off-axis scintillation index for a Gaussian vortex beam is examined in horizontal laser communication links operating in a weakly turbulent atmosphere. The performance of laser communication systems, defined in this study by the outage probability, is evaluated using the lognormal distributed intensity to find the scintillation index. The off-axis scintillation index of vortex Gaussian beams is analytically derived and evaluated in horizontal atmospheric links. The scintillation index obtained from the figures drawn versus the source size and propagation length is used to calculate the outage probability. It is found that turbulence affects vortex Gaussian beams less than non-vortex Gaussian beams. Our important finding is that the scintillation index is reduced when the topological charge increases.Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 9Multimode Beam Propagation Through Atmospheric Turbulence(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2024) Baykal, Yahya; Ata, Yalcin; Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Gokce, Muhsin CanerThe 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.Article Citation - WoS: 3Citation - Scopus: 5Depth Dependence of Oceanic Turbulence Optical Power Spectrum Under Any Temperature and Salinity Concentration(Iop Publishing Ltd, 2024) Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Baykal, YahyaThe Oceanic Turbulence Optical Power Spectrum (OTOPS) with depth variations is acquired under any temperature and salinity concentration. It is supposed that specific medium is the Atlantic Ocean at high latitude and the Pacific Ocean at high, mid and low latitudes. For the OTOPS model, a depth-varying functions that include low-latitude, high- and mid-latitude-summer and mid-latitude-winter salinity and temperature changes are found. With the help of the equations for the temperature and salinity changes, figures are obtained for the eddy diffusivity ratio depth of seawater and OTOPS model against the depth and kappa at these media. In the ocean, downlink (uplink) is defined as the optical wireless communication link where the receiver (transmitter) is located at a deeper point than the transmitter (receiver), i.e., in the downlink, optical signal proceeds from a point close to ocean surface to deeper ocean and in the uplink, optical signal proceeds from deeper ocean to a point close to ocean surface. In this paper, the OTOPS model is investigated on how its properties change in the underwater environment in downlink and uplink. Different behavior of the OTOPS model is exhibited.Article Citation - WoS: 34Citation - Scopus: 36Hermite Gaussian Beam Scintillations in Weak Atmospheric Turbulence for Aerial Vehicle Laser Communications(Elsevier, 2020) Sayan, Omer F.; Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Baykal, YahyaScintillation index of Hermite Gaussian beams used for air vehicle communication systems in vertical paths of weak atmospheric turbulent medium are investigated by employing the modified Rytov method. By evaluating the on-axis scintillation index, variations of the scintillation indices of these beams are examined against the changes in the Gaussian beam size of the Hermite Gaussian beam mode, propagation distances and the zenith angles at the realistic propagation distances involved in uplink and downlink configurations. In the atmospheric environment, for uplink, the Hermite Gaussian beam modes have no advantage over the Gaussian beams at short propagation distances like L = 20 km,as well as at long propagation distances like L = 700 km. However, for downlink, although Hermite Gaussian beam modes are disadvantageous over the Gaussian beams at short propagation distances like L = 20 km, they are found advantageous over the Gaussian beams at long propagation distances like L = 700 km. The results of this study may encourage to use Hermite Gaussian beams, especially in the air vehicle laser communication links, and can be used in the design of an optical wireless communication link utilizing the vertical atmospheric medium.Article Citation - WoS: 24Citation - Scopus: 26Scintillation and Ber for Optimum Sinusoidal Gaussian Beams in Weak Non-Kolmogorov Turbulence(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Baykal, YahyaThe scintillation index and the average bit error rate (BER) are evaluated for the optimum sinusoidal Gaussian beams in weak non-Kolmogorov turbulence. The beam parameters that minimize the scintillation index and the average BER are stated and such beams are denoted as the optimum beams. For the collimated Gaussian, cos- and cosh-Gaussian beams, the scintillations increase as the power law exponent, a increases. Cos- and cosh-Gaussian beams that have larger absolute displacement parameters are found to exhibit larger scintillations especially at small a. Larger focal length and larger source size of cos-Gaussian beams induce reduction in the scintillations. When the propagation distance is large, the power law exponent is small and the source size is large, the scintillations of the optimum beams tend to decrease. Small power law exponent and large source size reduce the average BER. The optimum beam is shown to exhibit the smallest average BER for any a. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 18Citation - Scopus: 16Ber of Annular and Flat-Topped Beams in Strong Turbulence(Elsevier, 2013) Gercekcioglu, Hamza; Baykal, YahyaThe average bit error rate (< BER >) of annular and flat-topped beams are evaluated in strong turbulence. In this respect, our earlier results on the scintillation indices obtained by the unified Rytov method are employed and the intensity is taken to be gamma-gamma distributed. For comparison purposes, < BER > for the log-normal intensity distribution is also evaluated. It is found that for the annular beams, the ones that are thinner, possessing smaller ratio of primary to secondary beam size, and smaller focal lengths will have smaller average BER in strong turbulence. For the flat-topped beams, the ones that are flatter and possessing large source sizes have smaller average BER in strong turbulence. Large average SNR substantially reduces the average BER in weak and moderate turbulence, whereas in strong turbulence, the average BER stays at the same value no matter what the average SNR is. Comparison of the log-normal and the gamma-gamma statistics for the intensity shows that the average BER will be higher for the log-normal case when the average SNR is small and the reverse relationship holds at large average SNR. For both the gamma-gamma and the log-normal intensity distributions, < BER > obtained for the annular and the, flat-topped beams in strong turbulence is advantageous over the Gaussian beam < BER > values. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 19Citation - Scopus: 17Average Transmittance in Non-Kolmogorov Turbulence(Elsevier Science Bv, 2013) Ata, Yalcin; Baykal, Yahya; Gercekcioglu, HamzaAverage transmittance in non-Kolmogorov turbulence is evaluated. Our recently published equivalent structure constant formulation is employed in our numerical evaluations. At the fixed propagation distance and wavelength, and at the corresponding equivalent structure constant, as the power law exponent of the non-Kolmogorov spectrum increases, the on-axis transmittance is found to decrease. At the same power law exponent of the non-Kolmogorov spectrum, the off-axis transmittance is obtained to be smaller than the on-axis transmittance. Off-axis transmittance variation versus the power law exponent shows that similar to the on-axis case, increase in the power law exponent eventually causes the off-axis transmittance to decrease, however this decrease occurs at larger power law exponent for larger off-axis distance. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 11Application of Equivalent Structure Constant in Scintillations and Ber Found for Non-Kolmogorov Spectrum(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Baykal, Yahya; Gercekcioglu, HamzaThe evaluation of system parameters in the non-Kolmogorov turbulent atmosphere involves the structure constant valid at the relevant non-Kolmogorov power law exponent. In some of the existing results, the comparisons of system parameters found under the Kolmogorov and non-Kolmogorov turbulences were made by using the same structure constant for all the power law exponents of the non-Kolmogorov spectrum. In this paper, we evaluate the scintillations and the average Bit Error Rate (< BER >) for the flat-topped and the annular beams in non-Kolmogorov turbulence, this time using the equivalent structure constant which is now different for all the power law exponents. It is observed that the scintillations and the < BER > show completely different behaviour when evaluated with the equivalent structure constant as compared to evaluations with constant structure constant. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.