Speaker
Thomas Produit
(Université de Genève)
Description
We present here a method that allows data transfer through fog and clouds, based on the opto-mechanical displacement of the water droplets instead of directly interacting with them. We experimentally demonstrated this method, which is based on the use of two lasers and the detection of a 1 GHz amplitude modulated sinusoidal signal. A high peak power pulsed laser generates the cloudless channel while a co- or counter-propagating low power laser carries information through the transmittive channel. Our experiment has been carried on a laboratory-scale fog length, with a typical water droplet density more than 100 times higher than that of real fog or cloud, hence an optical density comparable to a real fog.
Authors
Thomas Produit
(Université de Genève)
Dr
Guillaume Schimmel
(Université de Genève)
Dr
Denis Mongin
(Université de Genève)
Prof.
Jérôme Kasparian
(Université de Genève)
Prof.
Jean-Pierre Wolf
(Université de Genève)
