Ambient light noise and its effect on receiver design for indoor wireless optical links

Author

Boucouvalas, A.C.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electron., Bournemouth Univ., Poole, UK

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

23-27 Jun 1996

Firstpage

1472

Abstract

Knowledge of ambient optical noise is essential for designers of free space optical links, for resilient designs. A complete experimental characterisation of the most common ambient optical radiation is presented. The study includes tungsten filament sources, low and high frequency fluorescent lights, IR headphones, TV remote controls, and daylight. Means of reducing their influence on the performance of the links are also given. The results are valuable towards setting a standard way of comparing wireless IR links, based on testing their performance under such ambient noise

Keywords

filament lamps; fluorescent lamps; headphones; optical noise; optical receivers; optical variables measurement; sunlight; television equipment; IR headphones; TV remote controls; ambient light noise; ambient optical noise; ambient optical radiation; daylight; experimental characterisation; free space optical links; high frequency fluorescent lights; indoor wireless optical links; low frequency fluorescent lights; optical link performance; performance testing; receiver design; tungsten filament sources; wireless IR links; Fluorescence; Frequency; Headphones; Lighting control; Optical design; Optical fiber communication; Optical noise; Optical receivers; TV; Tungsten;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 1996. ICC '96, Conference Record, Converging Technologies for Tomorrow's Applications. 1996 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3250-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.1996.533654

Filename

533654