[MH2] Underwater Transmission

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[MH2-1] A Simple BER Expression for FSO Systems with Weak Turbulence and Pointing Errors

○Carmen Álvarez Roa¹, Yunus Can Gültekin¹, Kaiquan Wu¹, Cornelis Willem Korevaar¹, Alex Alvarado¹ (1. Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) (Netherlands))

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Free-space optical transmission

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.