High-Speed Optical Wireless Communication System for Indoor Applications

Author

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

Author_Institution

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

Volume

23

Issue

8

fYear

2011

fDate

4/15/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

519

Lastpage

521

Abstract

A novel high-speed optical wireless communication system for indoor personal area networking applications is proposed and studied. A proof-of-concept experiment at 12.5-Gb/s wireless transmission has been successfully demonstrated with limited mobility. When integrated with a WiFi-based localization system, high-speed optical wireless communication with a mobility feature can be achieved over the entire room. The performance trade-offs between the maximum beam footprint and overall bit rate have also been studied and quantified experimentally and the results show that error-free (BER<;10^-9) reception can always be achieved for a wide range of bit rates from 1 to 12.5 Gb/s.

Keywords

error statistics; high-speed optical techniques; indoor radio; optical fibre communication; optical links; optical receivers; personal area networks; BER; bit rate 12.5 Gbit/s; error-free reception; fiber-optics links; high-speed optical wireless communication system; indoor personal area networking; Adaptive optics; Bit rate; High speed optical techniques; Laser beams; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Wireless communication; Broadband communication; fiber-optics links and subsystems; indoor optical wireless communications; personal communication networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2011.2113331

Filename

5711640