it's been covered before many times, remember the interview right after the first commercial deal was announced Lebby was asked the question of who it was with, he said "it could a company or more than one company", obviously it was more than one company, most likely Nokia along with Polariton
LWLG INSIDE!!!!! Polariton Achievement enabled by plasmonics! Imagine transmitting 1 terabit per second through the air, from the top of the Swiss Alps (Jungfraujoch, 3450 m above sea level) down to the flatlands near Bern.
That’s exactly what the pioneering team around ETH Zürich (Institute of Electromagnetic Fields) and industry veterans from ONERA - The French Aerospace Lab, DOTA (CentraleSupélec - Paris-Saclay University Research Center), LNE-SYRTE, CNRS, Thales Alenia Space in Switzerland & France, accomplished with a single free-space optical (FSO) channel using high-order modulation and advanced adaptive optics.
FSO is a growing topic in industry, as not all communication can happen on fiber or RF. Therefore the relevance of the 2023 publication https://lnkd.in/e-ZnFvsE is rising.
At Polariton, we are at the forefront of enabling the next era of optical communication. The emerging space industry requires components that are not only compact and power-efficient, but also robust enough for the harshest conditions. Demonstrating 424 Gbit/s over a turbulent 53 km free-space path is meaningful.