Performance enhancement of overall LEO/MEO intersatellite optical wireless communication systems

This paper has deeply investigated the performance signature of modulation techniques based low earth orbit (LEO)/medium earth orbit (MEO) intersatellite optical wireless communication systems for possible communication coverage distance of 20 000 km with possible transmission bit rate of 0.5 Tb/s. These modulation techniques that are namely multilevel quadrature amplitude modulation (M-QAM), multilevel phase shift keying (N-PSK), multilevel pulse amplitude modulation (H-PAM), and finally multilevel differential phase shift keying (L-DPSK) based on different electrical pulse generators for upgrading LEO/MEO intersatellite link operation efficiency. These pulse generators that are namely Gaussian pulse generator (GPG), hyperbolic secant pulse generator (HSPG), and raised cosine pulse generator (RCPG). The variations of maximum Q-factor, minimum bit error rate (BER), and optical signal-to-noise ratio in relation to number of bits/symbol for different modulation techniques can be deeply studied in the presence of vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL). This study is done with using Optiwave system simulation version 7 for different modulation techniques, and all figures are sketched with using wizard Excel sheet set up. It is observed that maximum Q-factor and minimum BER are optimized with using GPG and 8-PAM, as well as 4-DPSK with both HSPG and RCPG.