High data rate coverage, security, and energy efficiency will play a key role in the continued
performance scaling of next-generation mobile systems. Dense, small mobile cells based on …

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 …

Photonics lanterns (PLs) provide an effective mode diversity solution to mitigate atmospheric
turbulence interference in free-space optical communications (FSOC). This paper presents …

There is a growing interest in utilizing structured beams in free-space optical (FSO)
communications. With uniquely tailored spatial amplitude and phase profiles, structured …

In general, atmospheric turbulence can degrade the performance of free-space optical
(FSO) communication systems by coupling light from one spatial mode to other modes. In …

Free-space optical (FSO) communications in the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength region
has gained increasing interest due, in part, to the lower atmospheric loss than at lower …

In this paper, we propose a chaotic block-matching and three-dimensional (C-BM3D)
filtering algorithm to remove the noise and enhance the security in the turbulent channel of …

Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) is one of the primary devices of wavelength division
multiplexing (WDM) technology with comprehensive advantages of stable performance, high …

We conducted full-duplex class 1 eye-safe transmission experiments, including 4K video
demonstrating robust connectivity to maximize transmission capacity under optimal paths by …

Spatial modes provide a potential dimension to boost the capacity of free-space optical
(FSO) communication systems. Various modal basis sets can be used. For a given aperture …