• DocumentCode
    3094995
  • Title

    Multi-carrier vs. single-carrier intensity modulation techniques for indoor optical wireless links

  • Author

    Kahn, Joseph M. ; Barros, Daniel J F ; Wilson, Sarah Kate

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-11 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    94
  • Lastpage
    95
  • Abstract
    We study the performance of three direct-detection orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing techniques for combating multipath distortion in indoor optical wireless links, and compare them to unipolar M-ary pulse-amplitude modulation with minimum mean-square error decision-feedback equalization.
  • Keywords
    OFDM modulation; decision feedback equalisers; indoor communication; intensity modulation; mean square error methods; optical distortion; optical links; optical modulation; direct-detection orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing; indoor optical wireless links; mean-square error decision-feedback equalization; multicarrier intensity modulation; multipath distortion; single-carrier intensity modulation; Modulation; OFDM; Optical distortion; Optical filters; Optical transmitters; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2012 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Seattle, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1526-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PHOSST.2012.6280742
  • Filename
    6280742