Experimental Investigation of Availability in a 4.6 km Terrestrial Urban Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications Link

2025/07/08 by van Vliet, Vincent, Hout, Menno van den, Gümüş, Kadir +2 · 1 citation
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paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.06051

Abstract

We measured the outage probability of a 4.6-km urban free-space optical communication link over six days. High-speed power measurements reveal slow and fast fading effects, with link availabilities of 92% including and 99% excluding slow fades for 500 Gb/s transmission.

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