5.7 Tb/s Transmission Over a 4.6 km Field-Deployed Free-Space Optical Link in Urban Environment

Vincent van Vliet; Menno van den Hout; Kadir Gümüş; Eduward Tangdiongga; Chigo Okonkwo

doi:10.1364/OFC.2025.M2J.7

5.7 Tb/s Transmission Over a 4.6 km Field-Deployed Free-Space Optical Link in Urban Environment

Vincent van Vliet, Menno van den Hout, Kadir Gümüş, Eduward Tangdiongga, Chigo Okonkwo

Electro-Optical Communication

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Abstract

We transmitted 5.7 Tb/s over a 4.6 km free-space optical link in an urban environment, spanning the city of Eindhoven, the Netherlands, using a 1.1 THz wide wavelength-division multiplexed signal.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2025
Publisher	Optica Publishing Group
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-55752-737-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2025.M2J.7
Publication status	Published - 2025
Event	2025 Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2025 - San Francisco, United States Duration: 30 Mar 2025 → 3 Apr 2025

Publication series

Name	Technical Digest Series
Volume	M2J.7

Conference

Conference	2025 Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OFC 2025
Abbreviated title	OFC 2025
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Francisco
Period	30/03/25 → 3/04/25

Funding

Supported by NWO TTW-Perspectief FREE P19-13, PhotonDelta National Growth Fund Programme on Photonics, and European Innovation Council Transition project CombTools (G.A. 101136978). We thank Aircision B.V., particularly N. Kaai, R. Blok, and A. Kotilis, for accommodating the High Tech Campus location.

Keywords

Free-space optical (FSO)
Free-space optical (FSO), atmospheric turbulence, pointing errors, channel modeling.
free-space optical communications
high-capacity data transmission
terabits per second
coherent communications

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10.1364/OFC.2025.M2J.7

2503.21058v1Final author version , 7.77 MBLicence: CC BY

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21058

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5.7 Tb/s Transmission Over a 4.6 km Field-Deployed Free-Space Optical Link in Urban Environment. / van Vliet, Vincent ; van den Hout, Menno ; Gümüş, Kadir et al.
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