| Summary: | The atmospheric lightwave propagation is considerably influenced by
the random variations in the refractive index of air pockets due to
turbulence. This undesired effect significantly degrades the
performance of free-space optical (FSO) communication systems.
Interestingly, the severity of such random degradations is highly
related to the range of atmospheric propagation. In this thesis, we
introduce relay-assisted FSO communications as a very promising
technique to combat the degradation effects of atmospheric
turbulence. Considering different configurations of the relays, we
quantify the outage behavior of the relay-assisted system and
identify the optimum relaying scheme. We further optimize the
performance of the relay-assisted FSO system subject to some power
constraints and provide optimal power control strategies for
different scenarios under consideration. Moreover, an application of
FSO relaying technique in quantum communications is investigated.
The results demonstrate impressive performance improvements for the
proposed relay-assisted FSO systems with respect to the conventional
direct transmission whether applied in a classical or a quantum communication channel.
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