“…Recently, the performance of multi-hop relaying FSO systems over atmospheric turbulence channels has been studied in (Datsikas, Peppas, Sagias, & Tombras, 2010;Safari & Uysal, 2008;Tsiftsis, Sandalidis, Karagiannidis, & Sagias, 2006). Moreover, recent studies have shown that similar to wireless communications, the effect of turbulence fading with pointing errors can be significantly relaxed by using the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique with multiple lasers at the transmitter and multiple photo-detectors at the receiver (Ai, 2018;Ai, Trung, & Tuan, 2016a;Ai, Trung, & Tuan, 2016b;Takase & Ohtsuki, 2005;Takase & Ohtsuki, 2006;Takase & Ohtsuki, 2014;Trung & Pham, 2014).…”