Field Demonstration of Turbulence-Resilient Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications Over an 800 m Link

Conference: ECOC 2024 - 50th European Conference on Optical Communication
09/22/2024 - 09/26/2024 at Frankfurt, Germany

Proceedings: ITG-Fb. 317: ECOC 2024

Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF

Authors:
McDonald, Douglas; Bellossi, Raphael; Gladysz, Szymon

Abstract:
We present a field demonstration of turbulence-resilient 10 Gbit/s 16-QAM coherent communications over an 800 m free-space link based on the pilot-assisted scheme. Turbulence is characterized by imaging the received beam, and results demonstrate the robustness of the scheme in moderate turbulence.