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In this paper, we investigate the modeling and design of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted optical communication systems which are deployed to relax the line-of-sight (LOS) requirement in multi-link free space optical (FSO)…
A stream of optical pulses, transmitted over long distances in optical fiber, will be affected by a variety of noise sources, leading to degradation in the signal-to-noise ratio. This noise accumulation sets generic capacity limits of all…
In this work, we provide a detailed analysis of a dual-hop fixed gain (FG) amplify-and-forward relaying system, consisting of a hybrid radio frequency (RF) and free-space optical (FSO) channels. We introduce an impairment model which is the…
We demonstrate an LED-based optical wireless link for fixed wireless access applications, at data rates of 1.5 Gbit/s over 50 m. Transmission between indoor equipment and outdoor access point is possible through metal-coated insulation…
The vision and requirements of the sixth generation (6G) mobile communication systems are expected to adopt freespace optical communication (FSO) and wireless power transfer (WPT). The laser-based WPT or wireless information transfer (WIT)…
High-precision time transfer is of fundamental interest in physics and metrology. Quantum time transfer technologies that use frequency-entangled pulses and their coincidence detection have been proposed, offering potential enhancements in…
In this paper, we propose an energy efficient wireless communication system based on fluid antenna relay (FAR) to solve the problem of non-line-of-sight (NLoS) links caused by blockages with considering the physical properties. Driven by…
Optical two-way time and frequency transfer is an enabling technology that has applications ranging from fundamental investigations of relativity to the operation of global navigation satellite systems. While fiber frequency combs have…
Carrier frequency offset estimation (CFOE) is a critical stage in modern coherent optical communication systems. Although conventional all-digital techniques perform reliably in typical fiber-optic communication links, CFOE often becomes a…
In this work, we consider multi-hop and mesh hybrid teraHertz/free-space optics (THz/FSO)-based backhaul networks for high data-rate communications. The results are presented for the cases with both out-band integrated access and backhaul…
In this paper, we present a method based on a modal decomposition to quantify the efficiency of photonic lanterns (PL) based free space optical (FSO) communication receivers. We fabricate a seven port PL and we evaluate numerically the free…
In this paper a novel multi-hop relay-assisted hybrid Free Space Optical / Radio Frequency (FSO / RF) communication system is presented, in which a mobile user is connected to the Base Station via a multi-hop relay-assisted hybrid FSO / RF…
The performance analysis of free space optical communication (FSO) systems using relays and spatial diversity at the transmitter end is presented in this paper. The impact of atmospheric turbulence and attenuation caused by different…
Microresonator-based frequency combs are strong contenders as light sources for wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM). Recent demonstrations have shown the potential of microresonator combs for replacing tens of WDM lasers with a single…
We report world record high data transmission over standard optical fiber from a single optical source. We achieve a line rate of 44.2 Terabits per second (Tb/s) employing only the C-band at 1550nm, resulting in a spectral efficiency of…
We consider free-space optical (FSO) communication links for the backhaul connectivity of small cells (SCs) where a UAV with an FSO apparatus can serve as a backhaul relay node. We demonstrate how such drone relay stations (DRSs) can be…
Federated bilevel optimization (FBO) has shown great potential recently in machine learning and edge computing due to the emerging nested optimization structure in meta-learning, fine-tuning, hyperparameter tuning, etc. However, existing…
A coherent optical subassembly (COSA) is evaluated for coherent-correlation optical time domain reflectometry (CC-OTDR) based fibre sensing. Even though the COSA was originally designed for digital communication applications, acoustic…
We propose and demonstrate an ultrasonic communication link using spatial degrees of freedom to increase data rates for deeply implantable medical devices. Low attenuation and millimeter wavelengths make ultrasound an ideal communication…
This work investigates spatial-mode multiplexing (SMM) for practical free-space optical communication (FSO) systems using direct detection. Unlike several works in the literature where mutually incoherent channels are assumed, we consider…