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Free-space optics (FSO) is a data relaying technology, which requires a direct line of sight between the transmitter and the receiver units for reliable transmission. FSO communication links have many merits such as high modulation bandwidth, high data transmission rates, low cost, and easy installation process. The performance of FSO link is affected by certain external parameters such as absorption, scintillation, and atmospheric attenuation due to different weather conditions. This paper reports the designing and simulative comparison of two wavelength division multiplexing-based FSO links under rain and snow weather conditions. The proposed system reports successful transmission of \(32\times 10\) Gbps of data along a link distance of 16.5 and 1.07 km under rain and snow weather conditions, respectively, with acceptable performance levels (\(Q\sim \) 6 dB and \(\hbox {BER} \le 10^{-9}\)).
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Singh, M. Performance analysis of WDM-FSO system under adverse weather conditions. Photon Netw Commun 36, 1–10 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11107-018-0763-y
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