arxiveess.SP2026-07-16
SLIPT-Enabled Ground-to-UAV FSO Systems with Optical Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Luna Sugiyama, Phuc V. Trinh, Shinya Sugiura
This paper proposes an optical reconfigurable intelligent surface (ORIS)-assisted ground-to-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) free-space optical (FSO) communication system empowered by simultaneous lightwave information and power transfer (SLIPT). To overcome the line-of-sight (LoS)…