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

Optics 2025-07-17 v1 Signal Processing
Authors: Vincent van Vliet , Menno van den Hout , Kadir Gümüş , Eduward Tangdiongga , Chigo Okonkwo
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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.

Keywords

free-space optical communication high-speed transmission wavelength-division multiplexing urban environment

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@article{arxiv.2503.21058,
  title  = {5.7 Tb/s Transmission Over a 4.6 km Field-Deployed Free-Space Optical Link in Urban Environment},
  author = {Vincent van Vliet and Menno van den Hout and Kadir Gümüş and Eduward Tangdiongga and Chigo Okonkwo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21058},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted for presentation at Optical Fiber Communication (OFC) Conference 2025

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