Optical laser communication in free space is an area that has been attracting increasing interest in the last years, due to its possible capacity to resolve the problem of information diffusion, giving higher capacity access to users. Wireless optical systems offer speedy installation and initialization procedures and system flexibility, with the equivalent frequency bandwidth as optical fiber systems, around 1.5 Gbps for the commercial systems available nowadays. The critical aspect involving the application of wireless optical systems is free space optical propagation. The great difference between the laser free space and optical fiber transmissions is the capacity to predict the signal power attenuation that propagates into the optical fiber, when compared to the atmosphere propagation. Besides the variability of the atmospheric attenuation due to the presence of particles and aerossois, one of the phenomena that affects laser beam propagation is atmospheric turbulence, that occurs even in high transparency atmospheric conditions. Random fluctuations in air temperature generate small inhomogenities in the refraction index throughtout the light propagation path. These changes in the refraction index cause fluctuations in the phase speed of the signal that is spread over this path, causing distortion in its wave-front. As the wave-front distorts and reaches medium with turbulence, random changes occur in the beam direction, creating fluctuations in its intensity, which contribute to the degradation of the signal reception. In this thesis the effects of the scintillation, due to atmospheric turbulence, were experimentally evaluated using three free space links with three different wavelengths. The experimental results have shown that the speckle pattern generated by the optical fiber feeding the 780 nm and 1550 nm transmitters affected the link performance at these wavelengths.