Journal article

Full-Duplex Gigabit Indoor Optical Wireless Communication System with CAP Modulation

K Wang, A Nirmalathas, C Lim, K Alameh, E Skafidas

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters | Published : 2016

Abstract

In this letter, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an indoor optical wireless communication system with over 1-Gb/s data transmission, for both downlink and uplink. A low-cost vertical cavity surface emitting laser with limited modulation bandwidth is used as the uplink light source, and it is directly modulated with the carrierless-amplitude-phase (CAP) format; 1 Gb/s (4-CAP), 1.5 Gb/s (8-CAP), and 2 Gb/s (16-CAP) uplink transmissions are achieved and the results demonstrate a receiver sensitivity better than -17 dBm (at a bit error rate of 10-3). In addition, the tradeoff between the bit rate and the system performance in terms of receiver sensitivity and beam coverage area is inves..

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported in part by the Australian Research Council's Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) funding scheme (Project DE150100924), and in part by The University of Melbourne's Early Career Researcher (ECR) funding scheme (Project 602702).