Wireless optical OFDM implementation for aircraft cabin communication links

Author

Marinos, D. ; Aidinis, C. ; Schmitt, N. ; Klaue, J. ; Schalk, J. ; Pistner, T. ; Kouros, P.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Phys., Dept. of Electron., Comput., Telecommun. & Control, Nat. & Kapodistrian Univ. of Athens, Athens, Greece

fYear

2010

fDate

5-7 May 2010

Firstpage

465

Lastpage

470

Abstract

The state of development of optical devices has led to increased interest in high data rate wireless optical communication schemes that today constitute a viable alternative to conventional wireless technologies for information exchange. In this work, a high data rate wireless optical link, based on OFDM modulation, conventional laser diodes and large area photodiodes, was implemented and investigated. A laboratory prototype was used to demonstrate a data rate of 19.6Mbit/s. A 64-subcarrier OFDM signal with different subcarrier modulation schemes (BPSK, QPSK) was examined. Target applications are video, high speed internet etc. within the confines of an intra-cabin wireless optical topology

Keywords

Aircraft; Diode lasers; High speed optical techniques; Laboratories; OFDM modulation; Optical devices; Optical fiber communication; Photodiodes; Prototypes; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Pervasive Computing (ISWPC), 2010 5th IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Modena, Italy

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6855-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6857-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISWPC.2010.5483801

Filename

5483801