Indoor Optical Wireless Systems Journal of Lightwave Technology.

2018

Indoor Optical Wireless Systems:

Technology, Trends, and Applications

Julian Navarrete Rubio

Jaiber Camacho Olarte
Santiago Barrera Boada

National Univerisity of Colombia

Wireless Communication. 2018-I

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Content

1 Introduction

2 Visible Light Communication

3 Beam-Steered IR Light Communication

Active Beam-Steering Devices
Passive Beam-Steering Devices

4 OWC Receiver

5 Comparison

6 Conclusion

7 References

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Introduction

The demand for wireless

communication is growing
relentlessly in the lasts
decades, in consequence the
radio frequency bands it been
saturade, for this reason, the
transmission of information in
the optical domain has been
proposed as a solution, in
order to decongest these
Figure: Wireless comunication in
frequency bands. indoor

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VLC

Long decay of
the phosphor.
40 Mbit/s
Bandwidth of
15 MHz per
channel (8
Gbit/s).
IEEE
802.15.7:
Standard for
high speed
(up to 96
Mbit/s) VLC
Figure: LED types for VLC: blue LED + phosphor
(flickering)
and RGB LED. [1]
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VLC

Figure: Bandwidth of LUXEON STAR device. [2]

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Beam-Steered IR Light Communication

Multiple beams is needed in order to establish links to multiple

terminals

Active Beam-Steering Devices

SLM with 512 X 512 pixels, 256 phase levels, λ = 1.55µm

γ = 10
θ = 30
WDM with 3 channels spaced
by 10.1GHz
16-QAM
Speed: 3 x 37.4Gbits/s = 112
Gbits/s

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Beam-Steered IR Light Communication

2D beam steering with MEMS mirrors

Downstream communication
λ = 1551nm
CAP-16 modulation
Power: 7mW
Speed: 10 Gbits/s

Upstream communication
λ = 850nm
Power: 5mW
Speed: 2 Gbits/s

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Passive Beam-Steering Devices

Characteristics
It does not change state and have no moving parts.
It does not need local feed nor a separate control channel.
Simplification of the network architecture and
administration of system.
The optical data signals are fed by means indoor fiber.
Laser tuning times are typically much less than tuning
times of a MEMS mirror or SLM.

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Passive Beam-Steering Devices

Operation
the diffraction gratings deflects i: The beam’s incident
the light beam at angle theta angle on the grating.
as a function of the beam’s n: The refractive index of
wavelength. the outside medium.
d: The grating’s period.
ψ + sin(i) = m ∗ λ/(n ∗ d)
m: The order of
Where: interference.

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Passive Beam-Steering Devices

Operation

Figure: Light dispersion by difraction grating giphotostock

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Passive Beam-Steering Devices

1-dimensional Tuning the wavelength from

Transmision rate 10Gbit/s. 1529 to 1611 nm.
Angular steering range
∆ψ = 17.2◦
Tuning Over 130nm
(λ = 1500nm to 1630nm).
Over free space link 2.5m.
2-dimensional
Transmision rate 42.8 Gbit/s.
With 2 crossed reflection
gratings with 31.6 and 79
grooves/mm.
Figure: 2D beam steering with
Angular beam steering over two crossed gratings [1]
5.6x14

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OWC Receiver

Receiver
Is a user’s device, them should be low cost, compact, wide
field-of-view (FoV), large aperture.
Slap with waveguide doped with fluorophore

Localization

Time of Arrival (ToA)

Time Difference of Arrival
(TDoA)
Angle of Arrival (AoA)
Received Signal Strength
(RSS)
Algorithm based on vision
analysis
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Comparison

Figure: Comparison between VLC, BS-ILC and WiFi. [1]

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Conclusion

VLC with a blue LED with phosphor coating has a narrow

bandwidth, so, RGB LEDs seems to be the solution,
however, this method is more expensive and complicated.
The OWC as a BS-ILS presents a very high speed
transmission rate which is superior to other communication
methods.
The directivity of a red infrared beam allows generating a
system with a direct link that translates into a lower power
transmitted.

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References

[1] T. Koonen, “Indoor optical wireless systems: Technology,

trends, and applications,” Journal of Lightwave Technology,
vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1459–1467, April 2018.
[2] D. C. O’Brien, L. Zeng, H. Le-Minh, G. Faulkner, J. W.
Walewski, and S. Randel, “Visible light communications:
Challenges and possibilities,” in 2008 IEEE 19th
International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile
Radio Communications, Sept 2008, pp. 1–5.

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Thanks

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