SPATIal divisiOn mutliplexing for TERAbit/s terahertz communications – SPATIOTERA

Delivering fast data connections to mobile users is one of the biggest challenges of XXIst century. Even if wireless data networks are facing a huge pressure on the volume of data to be delivered to the citizens, we are still far from the speed required for a fully connected society. This urgent need for wireless network evolution can be achieved by using the terahertz (THz) frequency range, offering large bandwidths. Considering that the highest data-rates are handled by fibre-optic communication systems, SPATIOTERA targets ambitious seamless optic to terahertz radio interfaces to deliver the high optical data-rates over terahertz radio links. SPATIOTERA targets new solutions based on spatially distributed terahertz sources to tackle the data-rate challenge as well as the distance challenge. Using this new approach, up to terabit per second data-rates and links covering up to kilometre range will be enabled in the THz range, ten-fold better than current state-of-the-art.