We collaborate with the Mid-IR quantum cascade laser research group to develop novel systems free-space communication in novel regions of the optical spectrum. Mid-IR sources, lasing in the 3-10 micron range, have the big advantage over conventional telecom-band sources to feature a strongly reduced scattering by dust particles, fog, haze when propagating thorugh the atmosphere. This could lead to larger link lengths for terrestrial and ground-to-satellite links, with reduced sensitivity to atmspheric effects on the link quality.
In our lab we can simulate an effective attenuation to test the performances of a TX-RX system embedding Mid-IR sources
