Been reading about this for years. Takes odd launchers and receivers but more importantly, the receiver device must be dead on boresight. Whether RF or optic, the spot you are in the wavefront really matters. So aiming is much more difficult and it is the TX aiming that is the most critical.
From: Stephen Patrick Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 7:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Twisted light could make wireless data faster than fiber For anyone interested, The published actual research paper is here: http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/advances/3/10/e1700552.full.pdf http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/10/e1700552 University of Glasgow is one of the leaders on the project https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_555908_en.html Innovations appear to be OAM and tip/tilt adaptive optics. FSO is certainly a real technology: CableFree have 20 years experience in this, and we've seen that some products that were/are on the market are certainly less solid than others. Commercial FSO is mostly used for shorter 1Gbps links in cities these days, and ours customer base includes major clients. FSO does have the advantage of not suffering interference, and genuine 1Gbps FDX capacity. Our own page is www.cablefree.net/fso for anyone interested - Best regards Stephen On 31 October 2017 at 04:01, Rory Conaway <[email protected]> wrote: This has been out for some time. One guy thinks he can convert it to RF but there are many skeptics. Rory From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Moffett Sent: Monday, October 30, 2017 8:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Twisted light could make wireless data faster than fiber Free space optics has not impressed me yet. A different variant of free space optics doesn't excite me. I'll be very happy if they are successful with it.....just saying I'm not gonna bet on it.. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Jaime Solorza" <[email protected]> To: "Animal Farm" <[email protected]> Sent: 10/30/2017 7:03:38 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Twisted light could make wireless data faster than fiber They tested at one mile....still nascent technology... On Oct 30, 2017 3:24 PM, "Jason McKemie" <[email protected]> wrote: Yeah, might work in a lab I suppose. On Monday, October 30, 2017, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: I'm not going to bet on it. ------ Original Message ------ From: "Jaime Solorza" <[email protected]> To: "Animal Farm" <[email protected]> Sent: 10/30/2017 3:35:33 PM Subject: [AFMUG] Twisted light could make wireless data faster than fiber https://www.engadget.com/amp/2017/10/29/twisted-light-promises-wireless-data-faster-than-fiber/
