• DocumentCode
    257041
  • Title

    Experimental demonstration of pulse amplitude modulated visible light communications

  • Author

    Ziyan Jia ; Lianfeng Shen ; Weiwei Xia ; Ming Wu

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Mobile Commun. Res. Lab., Southeast Univ., Nanjing, China
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    7-10 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    727
  • Lastpage
    728
  • Abstract
    We experimentally demonstrate a visible light communication (VLC) system using pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). A commercially available phosphorised white LED is used as the optical transmitter and a Si photodiode (PD) is used as the optical receiver. The experiment is mainly implemented in an indoor environment which is influenced by the sunlight and fluorescent lamp. In variant conditions, the experimental results using 4-PAM and 2-PAM (i.e. on-off-keying (OOK)) and the related analysis are reported.
  • Keywords
    indoor communication; optical modulation; optical receivers; optical transmitters; pulse amplitude modulation; LED; PAM; Si photodiode; VLC system; indoor environment; optical receiver; optical transmitter; pulse amplitude modulation; visible light communications; Bit error rate; Driver circuits; Field programmable gate arrays; Light emitting diodes; Modulation; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; LED driver circuit; bit error rate; pulse amplitude modulation; visible light communication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Consumer Electronics (GCCE), 2014 IEEE 3rd Global Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Tokyo
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GCCE.2014.7031275
  • Filename
    7031275