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A 3-Gb/s Single-LED OFDM-Based Wireless VLC Link Using a Gallium Nitride μLED

  • D. Tsonev
  • , H. Chun
  • , Sujan Rajbhandari
  • , J. J. D. McKendry
  • , S. Videv
  • , E. Gu
  • , M. Haji
  • , S. Watson
  • , A. E. Kelly
  • , G. Faulkner
  • , M. D. Dawson
  • , H. Haas
  • , D. O'Brien
  • University of Oxford

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Abstract

This letter presents a visible light communication (VLC) system based on a single 50- μm gallium nitride light emitting diode (LED). A device of this size exhibits a 3-dB modulation bandwidth of at least 60 MHz - significantly higher than commercially available white lighting LEDs. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is employed as a modulation scheme. This enables the limited modulation bandwidth of the device to be fully used. Pre- and postequalization techniques, as well as adaptive data loading, are successfully applied to achieve a demonstration of wireless communication at speeds exceeding 3 Gb/s. To date, this is the fastest wireless VLC system using a single LED.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)637-640
Number of pages4
JournalIEEE Photonics Technology Letters
Volume26
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Jan 2014
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • III-V semiconductors
  • OFDM modulation
  • equalisers
  • gallium compounds
  • light emitting diodes
  • optical communication equipment
  • optical links
  • wide band gap semiconductors
  • GaN
  • adaptive data loading
  • bit rate 3 Gbit/s
  • light emitting diode
  • microLED
  • modulation bandwidth
  • orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
  • postequalization technique
  • preequalization technique
  • single LED OFDM based wireless VLC Link
  • size 50 mum
  • visible light communication system
  • wireless communication
  • OFDM
  • Visible light communication
  • optical modulation
  • optical wireless communication
  • Bandwidth
  • Light emitting diodes
  • Loading
  • Modulation
  • Signal to noise ratio
  • Wireless communication

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