Development of a visible light communications system for optical wireless local area networks

P. A. Haigh; T. T. Son; E. Bentley; Z. Ghassemlooy; H. Le Minh; L. Chao

doi:10.1109/ComComAp.2012.6154870

Development of a visible light communications system for optical wireless local area networks

P. A. Haigh^*, T. T. Son, E. Bentley, Z. Ghassemlooy, H. Le Minh, L. Chao

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Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

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Abstract

This paper presents the development of a Visible Light Communications (VLC) system for a local area network (LAN). The link is analyzed for all development stages and compared with a typical Ethernet system. The VLC system uses a Philips Luxeon Rebel as the transmitter and a Centronic OSD15-5T as the receiver coupled with a blue filter to achieve the required 10 Mb/s bit rates. The distance in which the optical link was measured was up to 1 m, and the link was successful (BER 10-6) for distances up to 0.7 m. To achieve higher distances and therefore to make the system practical in the home or office environment, the number of LEDs used can be scaled.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2012 Computing, Communications and Applications Conference, ComComAp 2012
Pages	351-355
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ComComAp.2012.6154870
Publication status	Published - 7 May 2012
Event	2012 Computing, Communications and Applications Conference, ComComAp 2012 - Hong Kong, United Kingdom Duration: 11 Jan 2012 → 13 Jan 2012

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Conference	2012 Computing, Communications and Applications Conference, ComComAp 2012
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Hong Kong
Period	11/01/12 → 13/01/12

Keywords

Computer Networks
Ethernet Networks
Optical Link
Visible Light Communications

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Haigh, PA, Son, TT, Bentley, E, Ghassemlooy, Z, Le Minh, H & Chao, L 2012, Development of a visible light communications system for optical wireless local area networks. in 2012 Computing, Communications and Applications Conference, ComComAp 2012., 6154870, pp. 351-355, 2012 Computing, Communications and Applications Conference, ComComAp 2012, Hong Kong, United Kingdom, 11/01/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/ComComAp.2012.6154870

Development of a visible light communications system for optical wireless local area networks. / Haigh, P. A.; Son, T. T.; Bentley, E.; Ghassemlooy, Z.; Le Minh, H.; Chao, L.

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