Characterising Interleaver Length in a Turbulent Deployed Terrestrial Free-Space Optical Link

Abstract

We investigate the correlation between interleaver length and turbulence for a deployed terrestrial free-space optical link spanning 4.6 km. Using 24 hours of measurements, we show an indicative distribution of interleaver length for capacities up to 350 Gb/s/pol and outage probabilities down to $10^{-4}$.

Accepted for oral presentation at IPC 2026