Experimental Demonstration of a Full-Duplex Indoor Optical Wireless Communication System

Author

Wang, Ke ; Nirmalathas, Ampalavanapillai ; Lim, Christina ; Skafidas, Efstratios

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Volume

24

Issue

3

fYear

2012

Firstpage

188

Lastpage

190

Abstract

In this letter, a high-speed full-duplex indoor optical wireless communication system for both down-link and up-link is experimentally demonstrated. The feasibility of simultaneous error-free (bit-error-rate or BER <; 10^-9) operation of both a 10-Gbps down-link and a 500-Mbps up-link with a beam footprint of ~1 m has been demonstrated. Negligible power penalty due to the crosstalk is observed. When this full-duplex system is incorporated with our recently proposed novel optical wireless localization system, error-free operation can be provided over the entire room.

Keywords

crosstalk; indoor communication; optical fibre communication; optical links; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; bit rate 500 Mbit/s; crosstalk; down link; error free operation; full duplex indoor optical wireless communication system; simultaneous error free; up link; Adaptive optics; Optical fiber networks; Optical fibers; Optical transmitters; Wireless communication; Fiber-optics links and subsystems; full-duplex wireless communication; indoor optical wireless communications;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2175912

Filename

6078398