cFLOW – FREE SPACE COMMUNICATION
cFLOW is an EU funded international project aiming at developing Long Wave Infrared region (LWIR) technologies (Quantum cascade laser sources, detectors, corresponding materials, chip architecture and general systems) for Free Space Optical communications.
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BINGO!
Mid-infrared EM spectrum is ideally suited for free space communication
Quantum cascade lasers produce directional light for point-to-point high bandwidth transmission
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Visible spectrum (red to blue)
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Non directional transmission for radio, television and mobile phone networks
Long Wave Infrared region of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum has extremely low sensitivity to atmospheric perturbation and is currently not in use for communications. As such it poses as an ideal candidate for free space optical transmission
