Terabits without fibres

Zhenyu Xie; Qi-Fan Yang

doi:10.1038/s41377-025-01921-y

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- Terabits without fibres
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 14, Issue 9, Pages: 2371-2372(2025)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.State Key Laboratory for Artificial Microstructure and Mesoscopic Physics and Frontiers Science Center for Nano-optoelectronics, School of Physics, Peking University, 100871 Beijing, China
  2.Peking University Yangtze Delta Institute of Optoelectronics, 226010 Nantong, Jiangsu, China
  3.Collaborative Innovation Center of Extreme Optics, Shanxi University, 030006 Taiyuan, China
- Author bio：
  
  Qi-Fan Yang (leonardoyoung@pku.edu.cn)
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- DOI：10.1038/s41377-025-01921-y
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- Published Online：02 July 2025，
  
  Published：30 September 2025
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Xie, Z. Y. & Yang, Q. F. Terabits without fibres. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 2371-2372 (2025).
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Xie, Z. Y. & Yang, Q. F. Terabits without fibres. Light: Science & Applications, 14, 2371-2372 (2025). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-025-01921-y.

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A microcomb-based coherent free-space optical link achieves a record-high bandwidth of 8.21 Tbps. Novel beam stabilisation and carrier phase retrieval schemes are employed for turbulence suppression and error correction.

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