Experimental Demonstration of a 100-Gbit/s 16-QAM Free-Space Optical Link Using a Structured Optical "Bottle Beam" to Circumvent Obstructions
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Zhou, Huibin; Hu, Nanzhe; Su, Xinzhou; Zhang, Runzhou; Song, Haoqian; Song, Hao; Pang, Kai; Zou, Kaiheng; Minoofar, Amir; Lynn, Brittany; Tur, Moshe; Willner, Alan E.
- Source
- 2021 European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) Optical Communication (ECOC), 2021 European Conference on. :1-4 Sep, 2021
- Subject
- Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Photonics and Electrooptics
Signal Processing and Analysis
Europe
Optical fiber communication
Optical beams
- Language
We experimentally demonstrate a 100-Gbit/s 16-QAM free-space optical link using/tailoring an optical bottle beam to circumvent obstructions with different sizes and locations. Experimental results show ~10-dB less obstruction-induced power penalty compared to using a Gaussian beam for the obstruction with a diameter of ~4.5 mm.