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From the journal Journal of Optical Communications Volume 45 Issue 4

Abstract

Underwater wireless optical communication (UOWC) systems have lately garnered a significant amount of attention for both academic purposes and trial applications. Although the idea is not new, the fact that seawater has a smaller window of absorption for blue-green light has reawakened interest in it, and it has grown an essential attraction because of its high bandwidth, it can cover a wide variety of underwater activities as compared to radio frequency and acoustic technologies. To monitor pollution, maintain oil pipelines, monitor climate change, conduct offshore investigations, and conduct oceanography research, the wireless transmission of information underwater technology is of importance to the military, industrial, and scientific organizations all around the world. The use of wavelengths of visible light to transmit secure data across point-to-point connections in underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) compares well with the usage of free-space optical (FSO) communications. However, UWOC systems also have a huge amount of absorption and scattering introduced by the aquatic channels. Different from standard terrestrial free-space optical communication, many unique system design strategies have been investigated in recent years to solve these technological issues. This article presents a vision as well as various obstacles in the domain of underwater optical wireless communication, a detailed overview, and comparison of underwater communications techniques (UOWC) links, basic modulation technique techniques, and c pursuits on UWOC.

Keywords: attenuation; communications; laser; light emitting diode; modulation; underwater
Corresponding author: Mazin Ali A. Ali, Physics Department, Mustansiryah University, College of Science, Baghdad, Iraq, E-mail:

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Received: 2022-04-18
Accepted: 2022-07-13
Published Online: 2022-08-17
Published in Print: 2024-10-28

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https://doi.org/10.1515/joc-2022-0063
Keywords for this article
attenuation; communications; laser; light emitting diode; modulation; underwater

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  2. Detectors
  3. Performance investigation of DPMZM based RoF system by employing PIN and APD photodetector
  4. Devices
  5. Analysis of interferometric configuration for optical devices
  6. Fibers
  7. Applications of photonic crystal fibers in optical communication
  8. An accurate but simple method for estimation of the influence of kerr nonlinearity on the far field pattern of LP11 mode in dispersion-shifted and dispersion-flattened fibers
  9. Ambient refractive index sensitivity of long-period fiber grating (LPFG) with reduced cladding thickness using three-layer fiber geometry approach
  10. Research on novel single-mode polarization maintaining photonic crystal fiber
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  17. Optimization-enabled user pairing algorithm for energy-efficient resource allocation for noma heterogeneous networks
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  21. Nonlinearity mitigation of self-phase modulation effect in coherent optical system
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  23. Design and performance optimization of 96 x 40 Gbps CSRZ based DWDM long-haul system
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