Broadband Backhaul Communication for Stratospheric Platforms: The Stratospheric Optical Payload Experiment (STROPEX) [PDF]
A high bitrate optical downlink was performed by the stratospheric optical payload experiment (STROPEX), a part of the EU CAPANINA project. The STROPEX objectives were to design and build the necessary hardware to demonstrate an optical backhaul downlink
Knapek, Markus +9 more
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Wavelength Reuse for Short-Reach Optical Access Network Utilizing MDM
Wavelength reuse has been proposed as an effective solution to realize colorless optical network units (ONUs) for next-generation passive optical network with simplified maintenance and reduced cost.
Yuanxiang Chen +9 more
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MIMO MC-CDMA Systems over indoor optical wireless communication channels [PDF]
Optical wireless communication systems offer a number of advantages over their radio frequency counterparts. The advantages include freedom from fading, freedom from spectrum regulations and abundant bandwidth.
Alsaadi, Fuad Eid S
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MDM-TDM PON Utilizing Self-Coherent Detection-Based OLT and RSOA-Based ONU for High Power Budget
A cost-effective mode-division-multiplexing and time-division-multiplexing passive optical network (MDM-TDM PON) utilizing a self-coherent detection for upstream signal at optical line terminal (OLT) and a high-gain reflective semiconductor optical ...
Yuanxiang Chen +11 more
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Probabilistically Shaped PAM-8 Transmission With Simplified Volterra Equalizer
Intensity-modulation direct-detection (IM/DD) probabilistically shaped (PS) 8-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) signal is promising for high-speed intra-data-center networks.
Mingyi Gao +3 more
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Results of the Optical Downlink Experiment KIODO from OICETS Satellite to Optical Ground Station Oberpfaffenhofen (OGS-OP) [PDF]
Optical LEO downlinks from the Japanese OICETS to the optical ground station built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) near Munich have been performed. This was the first optical LEO downlink on European grounds.
Perlot, Nicolas +13 more
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Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have received extensive attention due to their high theoretical specific capacity and theoretical energy density. However, their commercialization is hindered by the shuttle effect caused by the dissolution of lithium ...
Chenghao Yao +6 more
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Optical Free-Space Communication on Earth and in Space regarding Quantum Cryptography Aspects [PDF]
Mobile FSO Communication links have gained signi cant at- tention over the last years due to their increasing maturity. They are used in point to point link scenarios where the high gain in power efficiency and datarate is crucial, compared to state-of ...
Fuchs, Christian +3 more
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Investigation of the Radiation Effect on BOTDR Under Low Space Radiation Doses
To verify the feasibility of Brillouin optical time domain reflector (BOTDR) applied in space station, three kinds of commercial fibers, YOFC fiber (about 1 km), Corning fiber (about 1 km) and Fujikura fibers (about 1.5 km), have been radiated by Co60 in
Mi Li +5 more
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Weighted Inter-frame Averaging-Based Channel Estimation for CO-OFDM System
We propose an efficient channel estimation method for coherent optical orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (CO-OFDM) based on weighted inter-frame averaging (WIFA), in which the channel estimation results of the adjacent frames are averaged to ...
Hui Zhao +7 more
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