Performance Analysis of Photonics in Wireless Applications

The advent of cutting-edge networking technologies like 5G and the Internet of Things portends well for the launch of innovative, data-intensive applications and services in the not too distant future. To employ these strategies, performance measurements must be quantified. Optical waveguide technology (OWC) has the potential to be a major enabling technology for high data-rate communications, with throughputs of up to Tbps. Light cannot propagate above or below the ocean's surface due to turbulence, which is caused by variations in the atmosphere's temperature and pressure, variations in the water's temperature and salinity, and motions of the sea in the marine medium. Other factors that impede light propagation include pointing error from transceiver movement and optical path-loss from scattering and absorption phenomena. Free-space optics (FSO) and underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) are two examples. On the other hand, the potential application of RF energy harvesting (EH) to create self-sufficient devices and extend node battery life has garnered significant attention. Even while RF and FSO wireless communication systems have been the subject of extensive performance studies in the literature, it may still be difficult to determine their analytical performance requirements for specific setups and schemes. Research on UOWC system performance in the presence of turbulence and path-loss impairments is currently one of the most sought-after areas of study. We provided a numerical approach to compute the UOWC path-loss, which can be utilised to find the UOWC system's bit error rate and received power..