High-Speed Visible Light Communications: Enabling Technologies and State of the Art
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Abstract
In the nearest decades, the rapidly increasing demand of wireless connectivity has resulted in the ubiquitous deployment of wireless systems as well as heavily congested wireless spectrum. Owing to the various inherent advantages, such as spectral and bandwidth relief, no healthy concern, high security, low cost, and low interference with Radio Frequency (RF) waves, visible light communication (VLC) has been an emerging optical wireless data transmission approach that can act as a good complement to and substitute for Radio Frequency. How to achieve a high-speed data transmission is a key problem to be solved in the VLC system. This review mainly focuses on the enabling technologies for high-speed VLC systems, including novel transmitter architectures, blue filters and advanced modulation, and equalization technologies. And the inherent advantages, potential applications, and some issues of VLC that need further study are presented as well. Finally, a comprehensive survey on the recent developments and the key contributions by research groups involved in the field of high-speed VLC is provided.
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OpenAlex topics: Optical Wireless Communication Technologies · Advanced Photonic Communication Systems · Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices
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Affiliations
Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China
State Key Laboratory of Infrared Physics, Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200083, China
Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Energy-Saving Coatings, Shanghai 200083, China
School of Physics and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
Funding
Shanghai Science and Technology Foundations · New Teachers Research Funding Project of Northwestern Polytechnical University · Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS
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