[MH2] Underwater Transmission

2:30 PM - 2:45 PM JST(5:30 AM - 5:45 AM UTC)

[MH2-3] Mitigating Turbulence Effects on Bit Error Rate Using Fine Tracking System in Underwater

○Taiga Manabe¹, Ekkaphol Khansalee², Haruto Hirose¹, Masanori Hanawa², Yoshihisa Takayama¹ (1. Tokai University (Japan), 2. University of Yamanshi (Japan))

Keywords:

Free-space optical transmission,Transmission impairments and their mitigations,Optical transmitter and receiver subsystems

A MEMS-based fine tracking system suppressing temperature-induced water fluctuations in underwater optical wireless communications was investigated. The angle error stayed below 1 mrad, and the BER remained under the FEC limit for 10 minutes.