Free space optical communication receiver based on a spatial demultiplexer and a photonic integrated coherent combining circuit

V Billault, J Bourderionnet, JP Mazellier… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Atmospheric turbulence can generate scintillation or beam wandering phenomena that
impairs free space optical (FSO) communication. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate …

Coherent free-space optical communications: opportunities and challenges

FP Guiomar, MA Fernandes, JL Nascimento… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The ever-increasing data rate demand for wireless systems is pushing the physical limits of
standalone radio-frequency communications, thus fostering the blooming of novel high …

Optimal modes for spatially multiplexed free-space communication in atmospheric turbulence

A Belmonte, JM Kahn - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In near-field free-space optical (FSO) communication, spatial-mode multiplexing (SMM)
increases transmission capacity by transmitting independent information streams in …

[HTML][HTML] Turbulence-resilient pilot-assisted self-coherent free-space optical communications using automatic optoelectronic mixing of many modes

R Zhang, N Hu, H Zhou, K Zou, X Su, Y Zhou… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In free-space optical communications that use both amplitude and phase data modulation
(for example, in quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM)), the data are typically recovered …

Slant-path coherent free space optical communications over the maritime and terrestrial atmospheres with the use of adaptive optics for beam wavefront correction

M Li, W Gao, M Cvijetic - Applied Optics, 2017 - opg.optica.org
As a continuation of our previous work [Appl. Opt. 54, 1453 (2015) APOPAI0003-
693510.1364/AO. 54.001453] in which we have studied the performance of coherent free …

Performance analysis of coherent free-space optical systems with multiple receivers

J Park, E Lee, CB Chae, G Yoon - IEEE Photonics Technology …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we investigate the performance of a coherent free-space optical (FSO)
communication system with multiple receive apertures over atmospheric turbulence fading …

Coherent architectures for free-space optical communications

DJ Geisler - CLEO: Science and Innovations, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Custom coherent architectures can provide many advantages for FSO communications
systems through co-development of integrated photonics, ASIC-or FPGA-based DSP …

[HTML][HTML] Aiming for high-capacity multi-modal free-space optical transmission leveraging complete modal basis sets

Z Hu, Y Li, Z Chen, DM Benton, AAI Ali, M Patel… - Optics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Free-space optical (FSO) communication has gained much interest due to its capability of
providing not only a cost-efficient solution where the optical fiber is too expensive or too …

Rate-adaptive free-space optical links over atmospheric turbulence and misalignment fading channels

A García-Zambrana, C Castillo-Vázquez… - Optical …, 2012 - books.google.com
Atmospheric free-space optical (FSO) transmission using intensity modulation and direct
detection (IM/DD) can provide high-speed links for a variety of applications, being an …

[HTML][HTML] Demonstration of 100 Gbps coherent free-space optical communications at LEO tracking rates

SM Walsh, SFE Karpathakis, AS McCann… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Free-space optical communications are poised to alleviate the data-flow bottleneck
experienced by spacecraft as traditional radio frequencies reach their practical limit. While …