Experimental Demonstration of a Narrow and Low-Divergence “Pin-Like” Beam in a 2-Gbit/s OOK FSO Link under Turbulence Effects when Using a Limited-Size Receiver Aperture

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:
Jiang, Zile; Su, Xinzhou; Zhou, Huibin; Zuo, Yue; Duan, Yuxiang; Ramankrishnan, Muralekrishnan; Alhaddad, Abdulrahman; Lian, Hongkun; Wang, Yingning; Zeng, Ruoyu; Zhao, Zixun; Tepper, Jan; Nardo, Francesco; Tur, Moshe; Ziegler, Volker; Willner, Alan

Abstract:
We demonstrate a 2-Gbit/s FSO link using pin-like beam under emulated turbulence. With a 3-mm-diameter receiver aperture, the BER of the pin-like beam is below 1e-5 under all 100 random turbulence realizations, while the Gaussian beam has a 3% outage probability (BER > 3.8e-3).