We experimentally demonstrate a two user non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based indoor optical wireless communication link with gigabit-per-second data throughput. MATLAB based simulations are carried out to characterize the indoor power profile and bit-error rate (BER) performance. The experimental implementation consists of directly modulating a near infrared laser to transmit the superposition coded (SC) NOMA symbols with signals received using two separate receivers, which denote the two spatially separated users. The received signals captured using an oscilloscope are decoded using successive interference cancelation (SIC) technique implemented offline in MATLAB. The experimentally measured channel responses are used in simulations to compare the experimental and simulation results, showing good agreement between the two. Optical communication is demonstrated with overall data throughput of 1.02 Gbps with high fidelity interference cancellation. The data-rates achieved here are the highest reported for conventional NOMA implementation in optical wireless systems.
We explore the use of 785 nm near-infrared laser source for the giga-bit class indoor visible light communication system compatible with the lighting fixture. The NIR laser light can easily hide behind the white LED light. For the proof-of-concept, a hybrid source is used as light source which consists of a white LED ring and a NIR laser diode. To avoid the non-uniform distribution of color and to improve the illumination performance, light is diffused using diffuser plate with full-width half-maximum (FWHM) of 20o. A glass lens is used to direct the light towards the receiver. White light from the LED with and without NIR is demonstrated with International Commission on Illumination (CIE 1931 XYZ color space) (.3186, .3293), a correlated color temperature of ~6100 K, and a color rendering index of 74.2 to provide an illuminance of 29.7 lux. To check the eye safe point-to-point communication capacity over a link length of 2- meters, 16QAM-OFDM format is used to directly modulate the NIR laser diode with the data rate of 3 Gbps (Bit-errorrate (BER) < 3.8×10-3). Such a high-speed LED-LD mixed VLC system without any channel interference can be used to simultaneously provide data transmission and white lighting in an indoor environment.
In this paper, lens design-based optimization of the optical system for a blue laser diode downconverted with remote phosphor based indoor visible light communication link is studied using optical raytracing and experimentally characterized for illumination/ communication performance. Data modulated 450nm blue laser-diode is used to excite a remote-phosphor to down-convert the blue spectrum to white which is transmitted over a direct line-of-sight free-space link and detected using an amplified p-i-n detector. The combination of transmit and receive lenses are optimized in Zemax ray-tracing software with the objective of minimizing the path loss or maximizing the light collection efficiency within the detector area when placed at different transmitter-to-receiver separation distance. It is found that contrary to the typical 1/d2 dependence typically used in VLC system models, the path loss can be minimized at the required link distance by choosing the lens to phosphor and p-i-n detector distance at the transmitter and receiver side respectively. At the optimized location, the VLC link is experimentally characterized by transmitting digital data at a maximum rate of 700 Mbps and bit error rates (BER) obtained is much below 10-3 . BER versus distance is also found to follow the inverse relation of the path-loss versus distance indicating that the optimized lens positions help in achieving improved data through-put due to minimization of the path losses. Optical spectra and color content measurements indicate that the optimized lens positioning results in enhanced blue content at the receive side due to efficient collection of the data modulated blue components at the expense of the green and red components of the down-converted white light. Further improvements to this link can be achieved by simultaneously optimizing performance at multiple wavelengths spanning blue, green and red wavelengths or using lower color temperature phosphors to improve illumination performance, albeit at the expense of some deterioration to the communication performance.
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