Tbps wide-field parallel optical wireless communications based on a metasurface beam splitter

作者：Yue Wu, Ji Chen, Yin Wang, Zhongyi Yuan, Chunyu Huang, Jiacheng Sun, Chengyi Feng, Muyang Li, Kai Qiu, Shining Zhu, Zaichen Zhang, Tao Li · 发表于：Nature Communications · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1038/s41467-024-52056-4 · 被引用次数：59 · 研究领域：Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications、Optical Wireless Communication Technologies、Advanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies

Optical wireless communication (OWC) stands out as one of the most promising technologies in the sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks. The establishment of high-quality optical links between transmitters and receivers plays a crucial role in OWC performances. Here, by a compact beam splitter composed of a metasurface and a fiber array, we proposed a wide-angle (~120°) OWC optical link scheme that can parallelly support up to 144 communication users. Utilizing high-speed optical module sources and wavelength division multiplexing technique, we demonstrated each user can achieve a communication speed of 200 Gbps which enables the entire system to support ultra-high communication capacity exceeding 28 Tbps. Furthermore, utilizing the metasurface polarization multiplexing, we implemented a full range wide-angle OWC without blind area nor crosstalk among users. Our OWC scheme simultaneously possesses the advantages of high-speed, wide communication area and multi-user parallel communications, paving the way for revolutionary high-performance OWC in the future.