Demonstration of Turbulence Resilient Self-Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications Using a Pilot Tone and an Array of Smaller Photodiodes for Bandwidth Enhancement
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Song, Hao; Zhang, Runzhou; Zhou, Huibin; Su, Xinzhou; Zou, Kaiheng; Duan, Yuxiang; Song, Haoqian; Pang, Kai; Hu, Nanzhe; Karapetyan, Narek; Minoofar, Amir; Tur, Moshe; Willner, Alan E.
- Source
- 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2022. :1-3 Mar, 2022
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Photonics and Electrooptics
Free-space optical communication
Bandwidth
Photodiodes
Optical arrays
- Language
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 $(\mathrm{D}/\mathrm{r}_{0}=\sim 8.4)$.