title: Numerical studies on time-domain responses of on-off-keyed modulated optical signals through a dense fog.
abstract: We present a numerical technique to simulate the propagation characteristics of an on-off-keyed modulated optical signal through fog. The on-off-keyed modulated light (a square wave) is decomposed into a finite number of harmonic components, and a numerical solution for the vector radiative transfer equation is obtained for each harmonic that corresponds to the modulation frequency. With this method we study the distortion and the pulse spread in the received signal due to attenuation and scattering. We investigate the propagation characteristic of the modulated signal with different communication system parameters. This information can be used to study communication channel reliability.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, PO Box 352550, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA. uketprom@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Urachada
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ketprom
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kuga
authors.forename: Sermsak
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jaruwatanadilok
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ishimaru