Abstract

In the present paper, we demonstrate the first outdoor free-space optical communication (FSOC) system with real-time video transmission in a 2-μm-band with a state-of-the-art data rate performance of 10 Gbit/s and a communication distance of ∼177 m. The measured wide-open eye diagram and zero bit-error-rate also validated the high communication quality. The FSOC system is constructed with all homemade components, including a single-frequency (SF) thulium-holmium co-doped fiber laser (THDFL), a modulation module, a demodulation module, three thulium-doped fiber amplifiers, an optical bandpass filter, two optical-antennas, and a display system. As the most important component, the SF THDFL, enabled by a uniform fiber Bragg grating and a passive fiber ring-compound cavity, is self-designed and fabricated by our group, presenting high lasing stability centered at 2048.98 nm, an optical signal-to-noise ratio of >81 dB, a relative intensity noise of <−128.18 dB/Hz at >0.5 MHz and a linewidth of 5.290 kHz under a measurement integration time of 0.001 s. Our work is an important step forward for practical outdoor FSOC in a 2-μm-band, proving useful for engineers and scientists when our SF THDFL is implemented as a low-cost, high-performance laser source for the FSOC system.

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