Impact of Chlorophyll Concentration on Underwater Optical Wireless Communications
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Yap, Y.X.; Jasman, F.; Marcus, T.C.E.
- Source
- 2018 7th International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE) Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE), 2018 7th International Conference on. :1-6 Sep, 2018
- Subject
- Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Attenuation
Sea measurements
Absorption
Light emitting diodes
Scattering
Optical transmitters
Sea surface
Underwater optical wireless communications
chlorophyll concentration
depth dependent attenuation
received power.
- Language
This paper investigates the impact of chlorophyll concentrations on the performance of underwater optical wireless communications. While the focus of this paper is on vertical links, the simulation results for horizontal links are also provided for comparison purpose. First, the attenuation model based on chlorophyll concentration is discussed. This is done by employing the depth dependent chlorophyll model in this work. It can be seen that the attenuation profile is significantly affected by the chlorophyll variation and is reaching a maximum value when the chlorophyll concentration is maximum. Next, the path loss performance is presented for both horizontal and vertical links for two wavelengths namely 450 nm and 650 nm. Further analysis is also conducted to compare the link performance by using laser and LED sources.