Experimental Investigation of Availability in a 4.6 km Terrestrial Urban Coherent Free-Space Optical Communications Link
arXiv:2507.06051 · doi:10.1109/ECOC66593.2025.11263027
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.
Accepted for presentation at European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) 2025