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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
3.4 Gbit/s visible optical wireless transmission based on RGB LED
G Cossu1, A M Khalid, P Choudhury
1Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Istituto TeCIP, Via G Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56124, Italy. g.cossu@sssup.it
Abstract:
In this paper, we experimentally realized a gigabit-class indoor visible light communication system using commercially available RGB White LED and exploiting an optimized DMT modulation. We achieved data rate of 1.5 Gbit/s with single channel and 3.4 Gbit/s by implementing WDM transmission at standard illumination levels. In both experiments, the resulting bit error ratios were below the FEC limit. To the best of our knowledge, these values are the highest ever achieved in VLC systems.
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