Effect of Limited Aperture Size on a Retro-reflected Communication Link Between a Ground Station and a UAV using Multiplexing of Orbital-Angular-Momentum Beams
OFC Conference 2018
                            
                                Section :
                            
                            Aerospace and Defense
                        
                                                                                    
                            
                                Publication date: 
                            
                            
                                                            2018
                                                        
                        
                                    Authors: Long Li, Runzhou Zhang, Peicheng Liao, Hao Song, Kaiheng Zou, GuodongXie, Zhe Zhao, Cong Liu, Haoqian Song, Kai Pang, Guillaume Labroille, Pu Jian, Dmitry Starodubov, Brittany Lynn, Robert Bock, Moshe Tur, and Alan E. Willner
Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2018), paper Tu2I.4
Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate and investigate the effect of limited aperture size on a 200-Gbit/s retro-reflected free-space optical link between a ground station and a UAV up to ~100-m roundtrip distance by multiplexing 2 OAM beams.
