Free-Space Data-Carrying Bendable Light Communications
Long Zhu, Andong Wang, Jian Wang

TL;DR
This paper demonstrates the use of bendable light beams for free-space data transmission along arbitrary paths, offering enhanced flexibility, robustness, and multifunctionality in optical communication systems.
Contribution
It introduces a novel free-space bendable light communication system capable of data transmission along curved trajectories with multiple functionalities, using high-speed 32-QAM DMT signals.
Findings
Successful data transmission along arbitrary curved paths
Demonstrated bypassing obstructions and self-healing capabilities
Achieved high data rate of 39.06 Gbit/s with bendable light beams
Abstract
Bendable light beams have recently seen tremendous applications in optical manipulation, optical imaging, optical routing, micromachining, plasma generation and nonlinear optics. By exploiting curved light beams instead of traditional Gaussian beam for line-of-sight light communications, here we propose and demonstrate the viability of free-space data-carrying bendable light communications along arbitrary trajectories with multiple functionalities. By employing 39.06-Gbit/s 32-ary quadrature amplitude modulation (32-QAM) discrete multi-tone (DMT) signal, we demonstrate free-space bendable light intensity modulated direct detection (IM-DD) communication system under 3 different curved light paths. Moreover, we characterize multiple functionalities of free-space bendable light communications, including bypass obstructions transmission, self-healing transmission, self-broken trajectory…
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Taxonomy
TopicsOptical Wireless Communication Technologies · Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices · Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics
