Influence of optical path difference on visible light communication systems

In indoor visible light communication channels and LED road illumination communications for the Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), inter symbol interference (ISI) due to multipath propagation prevents high data rate transmission. Indoor wireless optical communication systems utilizing white LED lights and on the road illumination have been studying about it. Generally, plural lights are installed in room and considered to the traffic information system using existing LED traffic lights. Therefore, their optical path difference must be considered. In this paper, the influence of an optical path difference has been investigated and two approaches against this problem are introduced. One uses On-Off Keying, Return-to-Zero (OOK-RZ) coding and the other uses optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM).