MIMO visible light communications using a wide field-of-view fluorescent concentrator

This letter reports a demonstration of a 2 x 2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) indoor visible-light communication (VLC) system using a novel fluorescent optical concentrator-based receiver. This potentially allows a high degree of spatial multiplexing to be achieved using a simple receiver structure that can have a wide field-of-view. Details of a two-channel MIMO VLC system that operates at 32 Mb/s with a receiver acceptance angle of ±22.5° are given, and future directions are discussed.

Citation

Mulyawan , R , Chun , H , Gomez , A , Rajbhandari , S , Faulkner , G , Manousiadis , P P , Vithanage , D A , Turnbull , G A , Samuel , I D W , Collins , S & O'Brien , D 2017 , ' MIMO visible light communications using a wide field-of-view fluorescent concentrator ' , IEEE Photonics Technology Letters , vol. 29 , no. 3 , 7809099 , pp. 306-309 . https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2016.2647717

Publication

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Status

Peer reviewed

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2016.2647717

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

Journal article

Rights

© 2017, IEEE. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at ieeexplore.ieee.org / https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2016.2647717