Free Space Optics (FSO) has become a viable, high bandwidth wireless alternative to fiber optic cabling.

自由空间光通信已经成为一种可行的、宽带宽的无线通信方式。

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However, two experiments carried out in the past few weeks have shown that it works with free-space optics.

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Free-space optics would have the odd drawback, such as flocks of birds, showers of snowflakes or banks of fog interrupting the beams.

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Free-space optics suffers from none of these problems.

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