Fig. 5. Demonstration of a 300 Gbit/s mid-IR FSO communication system using WDM and a combination of WDM and MDM.
a Measured beam profile of the mid-IR OAM beams. Intensity profile and interferogram with a Gaussian beam of the OAM + 1 and OAM + 3 beam, respectively. Intensity profile of the data-carrying multiplexed OAM + 1 and +3 beams. Intensity profile of the multiplexed OAM beam after passing through the second SPP with OAM order −3. b Normalized crosstalk matrix of MDM. c Measured BER of the OAM + 3 channel as a function of the received OSNR for the mid-IR OAM beam transmission when sending both OAM modes and sending a single OAM mode. d Measured BER and OSNR of all the channels, including two OAM modes with three wavelengths on each mode.