Micro-LED-based guided-wave optical links for visible light communications

Author

Bamiedakis, N. ; Li, X. ; McKendry, J.J.D. ; Xie, E. ; Ferreira, R. ; Gu, E. ; Dawson, M.D. ; Penty, R.V. ; White, I.H.

Author_Institution

Eng. Dept., Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

fYear

2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Visible light communications (VLC) have attracted considerable research interest in recent years for use in both free-space and guided-wave optical links. In this paper, we review recent work on the development of guided-wave VLC links over plastic optical fibres (POF) and multimode polymer waveguides utilising micro-pixelated light-emitting diodes (μLEDs) and pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) schemes. Record 6.25 Gb/s single-directional and 10 Gb/s bi-directional data transmission have been achieved over 10 m of POF using this low-cost technology, while low-cost waveguide-based VLC systems achieving 4 Gb/s per channel have been developed.

Keywords

light emitting diodes; micro-optics; optical fibre communication; optical polymers; optical waveguides; pulse amplitude modulation; bi-directional data transmission; microLED-based guided-wave optical links; micropixelated light-emitting diodes; multimode polymer waveguides; plastic optical fibres; pulse amplitude modulation; single-directional data transmission; visible light communications; Bandwidth; Data communication; Light emitting diodes; Optical fiber communication; Optical fibers; Polymers; advanced modulation formats; micro-pixelated LEDs; multimode polymer waveguides; plastic optical fibres; pulse amplitude modulation; visible light communications;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2015 17th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2015.7193686

Filename

7193686