Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

High-capacity free-space optical communications using wavelength- and mode-division-multiplexing in the mid-infrared region

  • Kaiheng Zou,
  • Kai Pang,
  • Hao Song,
  • Jintao Fan,
  • Zhe Zhao,
  • Haoqian Song,
  • Runzhou Zhang,
  • Huibin Zhou,
  • Amir Minoofar,
  • Cong Liu,
  • Xinzhou Su,
  • Nanzhe Hu,
  • Andrew McClung,
  • Mahsa Torfeh,
  • Amir Arbabi,
  • Moshe Tur,
  • Alan E. Willner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35327-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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A 300-Gbit/s free-space optical communication system is demonstrated in the mid-IR wavelength region by using both wavelength- and mode-division multiplexing.