Anisotropy Effect on Performance of Subcarrier Intensity Modulated Binary Phase Shift Keying Optical Wireless Communication Links in Weakly Turbulent Underwater Channel

Abstract

The effect of the anisotropy on the bit-error-rate (BER) performance of subcarrier intensity modulated (SIM) binary phase shift keying (BPSK) optical wireless communication (OWC) links operating in weakly turbulent underwater channels is examined. BER variations versus the anisotropic factor are examined when the bandwidth, photodetector responsivity, load resistor and the underwater turbulence parameters are varied. As anisotropy in the underwater channel becomes larger, SIM BPSK OWC links have better BER performance at any link and turbulence parameter.