title: Chaotic free-space laser communication over a turbulent channel.
abstract: The dynamics of errors caused by atmospheric turbulence in a self-synchronizing chaos-based communication system that stably transmits information over an approximately 5 km free-space laser link is studied experimentally. Binary information is transmitted using a chaotic sequence of short-term pulses as a carrier. The information signal slightly shifts the chaotic time position of each pulse depending on the information bit. We report the results of an experimental analysis of the atmospheric turbulence in the channel and the impact of turbulence on the bit-error-rate performance of this chaos-based communication system.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
authors.forename: N F
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Rulkov
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Vorontsov
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Illing