For nonline-of-sight ultraviolet communication links, a simple and concise parametric expression(PE) of channel path loss is valuable for link performance analysis in typical scenarios. It is observed that the light energy in the scattering volume can be approximated using a line integral. Combining curve fitting for the scattering phase function and the mean value theorem of integrals, we propose a simple but highly accurate PE. It matches well with the Monte Carlo simulations for typical LED-based communication with small beam divergence(<45°);when the beam divergence is smaller than 10°, their differences are less than 1 d B in most geometrical conditions.The proposed PE also shows good consistency with our outdoor experimental measurements, and the reported experimental results in the literature.
