A Simple BER Expression for FSO Systems with Weak Turbulence and Pointing Errors
Signal Processing
2025-04-10 v2
Abstract
We develop a simple approximation for the average BER for an FSO system impacted by weak turbulence and pointing errors. Numerical results show that the proposed expression accurately predicts the true BER.
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@article{arxiv.2503.24002,
title = {A Simple BER Expression for FSO Systems with Weak Turbulence and Pointing Errors},
author = {C. Álvarez Roa and Y. C. Gültekin and K. Wu and C. W. Korevaar and A. Alvarado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.24002},
year = {2025}
}
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