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In addition, atmospheric turbulence causes significant signal loss in FSO vertical links. Even in clear weather conditions, transmitted optical signals suffer significant scintillation losses due to random variations. Thus, the effect of atmospheric turbulence should be considered in vertical links. In this paper, we analyze the relationship between pointing error and scintillation from the aspect of beam divergence angle. Furthermore, we propose an adaptive beam that optimizes its divergence angle according to the pointing error between the communicating optical transceivers to mitigate the effect of scintillation due to pointing error. We performed a beam divergence angle optimization and compared it with adaptive beamwidth. The proposed technique was demonstrated using simulations, which revealed an enhanced signal-to-noise ratio and the mitigation of the scintillation effect. 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