Towards 10 Gb/s OFDM-based visible light communication using a GaN violet micro-LED

Mohamed Sufyan Islim; Ricardo X. Ferreira; Xiangyu He; Enyuan Xie; Stefan Videv; Shaun Viola; Scott Watson; Nikolaos Bamiedakis; Richard V. Penty; Ian H. White; Anthony E. Kelly; Erdan Gu; Harald Haas; Martin D. Dawson

doi:10.1364/PRJ.5.000A35

Towards 10 Gb/s OFDM-based visible light communication using a GaN violet micro-LED

Mohamed Sufyan Islim, Ricardo X. Ferreira, Xiangyu He, Enyuan Xie, Stefan Videv, Shaun Viola, Scott Watson, Nikolaos Bamiedakis, Richard V. Penty, Ian H. White, Anthony E. Kelly, Erdan Gu, Harald Haas, Martin D. Dawson

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Visible light communication (VLC) is a promising solution to the increasing demands for wireless connectivity. Micro-sized Gallium Nitride (GaN) light emitting diodes (mirco-LEDs) are strong candidates for VLC due to their high bandwidths. Segmented violet mirco-LEDs are reported in this work with electrical-to-optical bandwidths up to 655 MHz. An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based VLC system with adaptive bit and energy loading is demonstrated and a data transmission rate of 11.95 Gb/s is achieved with a violet mirco-LED, when the nonlinear distortion of the mirco-LED is the dominant noise source of the VLC system. A record 7.91 Gb/s data transmission rate is reported below the forward error correction threshold using a single pixel of the segmented array when all the noise sources of the VLC system are present.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	A35-A43
Number of pages	9
Journal	Photonics Research
Volume	5
Issue number	2
Early online date	10 Feb 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/PRJ.5.000A35
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2017

Keywords

optical communications
free-space optical communication
light-emitting diodes (LEDs)
micro-optical devices
visible light communication

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Martin Dawson
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- Institute Of Photonics - Professor
- SUPA
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Ultra-Parallel Visible Light Communications (UP-VLC)
Dawson, M., Calvez, S. & Watson, I.
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/10/12 → 28/02/17
Project: Research

Towards 10 Gb/s OFDM-based Visible Light Communication using a GaN Violet micro-LED
He, X. (Creator), Xie, E. (Creator), Gu, E. (Creator), Dawson, M. (Creator) & Ferreira, R. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 25 Apr 2017
DOI: 10.15129/8e0600e8-a217-4b68-9272-a3b829fd12d6
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