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Performance Analysis of Visible Light Communication Based on 16-QAM Companded OFDM Using Laser Diode

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Journal of Optical Communications
From the journal Journal of Optical Communications Volume 41 Issue 2

Abstract

In this paper, a 16-QAM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) with companding technique is proposed and experimentally demonstrated in a high-speed visible laser light communication setup with low-cost 450 nm blue-light laser diode. Companding technique is used to reduce the high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) of the OFDM signal. The experimental results show a successfully achieved 2.5 Gb/s under 5 m free space transmission and a PAPR reduction of about 3.2 dB at a fixed complementary cumulative distribution function of 10–3 when compared with the regular one without any technique.

Keywords: visible laser light communication (VLLC); laser diode (LD); orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation); companding

Acknowledgment

This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (K13A200020) and by the Watchdata LTD’s postdoctoral research center.

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Received: 2017-09-07
Accepted: 2017-10-09
Published Online: 2017-11-07
Published in Print: 2020-03-26

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https://doi.org/10.1515/joc-2017-0156
Keywords for this article
visible laser light communication (VLLC); laser diode (LD); orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation); companding

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Devices
  3. Investigation of Optical Microring Resonator Based on Surface Plasmon Polariton
  4. A High Finesse Serial Coupled Microresonator Filter
  5. Investigations with All-Optical Binary to Gray Code Converter at 50 Gbps Data Rate
  6. A Novel Architecture of N × N Bidirectional Reconfigurable Multiwavelength Optical Cross Connect
  7. Fibers
  8. Optical Soliton Compression in Dispersion Decreasing Fibers with Relaxing Kerr Effect
  9. Integrated optics
  10. Slow Light Investigation on Power Consumption of Lithium Niobate Phc Switch Based on Linear Electro-Optic Effect
  11. Lasers
  12. Performance Analysis of Visible Light Communication Based on 16-QAM Companded OFDM Using Laser Diode
  13. Networks
  14. Transmission Performance and Cost Analysis of Multi-Carrier-based Wavelength Division Multiplexed Passive Optical Access Network
  15. Investigation of Performance Affecting Parameters on Hybrid Passive Optical Networks
  16. Systems
  17. Transmission Performance of 112 Gb/s POLMUX QPSK Signal in OOK/DPSK WDM System
  18. A Cost-Effective High-Speed Radio over Fibre System for Millimeter Wave Applications
  19. SMPPM a Modified Optical Wireless Multi-pulse PPM
  20. Theory
  21. Mitigation of Atmospheric Turbulences Using Mode Division Multiplexing based on Decision Feedback Equalizer for Free Space Optics
  22. Performance Evaluation of Correlation Properties of Quasi Orthogonal Prime Codes for Optical CDMA Communication
  23. Study of the Correction of Effects Chromatic Dispersion and Attenuation to Evaluate the Optical Transmission
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