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Demonstration of Turbulence Resilient Self-Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications Using a Pilot Tone and an Array of Smaller Photodiodes for Bandwidth Enhancement

  • Hao Song*
  • , Runzhou Zhang
  • , Huibin Zhou
  • , Xinzhou Su
  • , Kaiheng Zou
  • , Yuxiang Duan
  • , Haoqian Song
  • , Kai Pang
  • , Nanzhe Hu
  • , Narek Karapetyan
  • , Amir Minoofar
  • , Moshe Tur
  • , Alan E. Willner
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Southern California

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Abstract

We demonstrate a 4-Gbit/s 16-QAM turbulence-resilient self-coherent free-space optical link using a pilot tone. An array of smaller photodiodes is used to potentially increase the overall bandwidth under turbulence (D/r0 = ~8.4).

Original languageEnglish
Article numberM4I.4
JournalOptics InfoBase Conference Papers
StatePublished - 2022
EventOptical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2022 - San Diego, United States
Duration: 6 Mar 2022 → 10 Mar 2022

Funding

FundersFunder number
Airbus Institute for Engineering ResearchN00014-20-1-2558, DSCA 4441006051, FA9550-20-1-0152
Qualcomm Innovation
VBFF
Office of Naval ResearchN00014-16-1-2813

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