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Introduction

Recently free-space optical links (FSOLs) are becoming attractive transport media for short-range fixed wireless applications. FSOL has the following advantages:

- broadband transmission is available;

- transmit/receive equipment is compact;

- there is almost no need for coordination to avoid interference between FSOLs.

Therefore, in order to expand its current and future applications, technical and operational aspects of FSOL need to be addressed through theoretical analyses as well as experimental approaches as described in this Report.