Application of adaptive optics on bit error rate of M-ary pulse-position-modulated oceanic optical wireless communication systems

An adaptive optics correction arising from the sum of tilt, focus, astigmatism and coma components is applied to the bit error rate (BER) of M-ary pulse-position-modulated (PPM) oceanic optical wireless communication systems. The percentage reduction in BER is evaluated versus the oceanic turbulence parameters of the ratio of temperature to salinity contributions to the refractive index spectrum, the rate of dissipation of mean-squared temperature and that of kinetic energy per unit mass of fluid under different data bit rates, avalanche photodiode (APD) average current gains and the M values of the M-ary PPM. Our findings indicate that the percentage reduction in BER becomes larger when the ratio of temperature to salinity contributions to the refractive index spectrum or the rate of dissipation of mean-squared temperature or the data bit rate or the M value of the M-ary PPM is smaller, and when the rate of dissipation of kinetic energy per unit mass of fluid or the APD average current gain is larger.