Hybrid Dual-Hop RF/FSO Terrestrial-Deep Space Communication System under Solar Scintillation during Superior Solar Conjunction

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Abstract

Free-space optical communication (FSO) technology has wide prospects in deep space exploration, but it will encounter coronal turbulence during superior solar conjunction, and solar scintillation will seriously affect the communication quality. In this paper, we propose a terrestrial– deep space hybrid radio frequency (RF)/FSO system with the hybrid L-pulse position modulation-binary phase shift keying-subcarrier intensity modulation (L-PPM–BPSK–SIM) scheme, where the RF channel of the satellite-terrestrial relay follows the Rayleigh distribution, and the FSO channel of the relay satellite to the deep space probe adopts Gamma–Gamma distribution. Considering the pointing error, the expression of the bit error rate (BER), the outage probability, and the average channel capacity of the hybrid system are derived. In addition, we evaluated the influence of coronal turbulence parameters on the system through amplitude fluctuations. The simulation results demonstrate that the hybrid RF/FSO system improves the BER performance by 10 to 30 times in a deep space environment, and the use of a hybrid modulation can further reduce the BER. The non-Kolmogorov spectral index, outer scale, solar wind density fluctuation factor, and optical wavelength comprehensively affect the BER through amplitude fluctuations. Our research results have potential application value for evaluating the link performance of future deep space communications.

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Jin, M., Liu, W., Hao, Y., Wu, R., Wei, Z., Deng, D., & Liu, H. (2022). Hybrid Dual-Hop RF/FSO Terrestrial-Deep Space Communication System under Solar Scintillation during Superior Solar Conjunction. Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 12(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020619

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