0.52-11.86 Gbit/s OFDM modulation for power-sharing VLC transmission by using VCSEL laser

In this paper, we propose employing a 682 nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) with 1 GHz bandwidth for high-speed and power-sharing wireless visible light communication (VLC) in the different transmission distances of 2 to 5 m. In the measurement, the data rate of 0.52 to 11.86 Gbit/s (0.44 to 10.8 Gbit/s in a net data rate) can be achieved by using spectral-efficient orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) modulation with bit-loading algorithm. Therefore, 4- to 256-quadrature amplitude modulations (QAMs) are employed simultaneously in the modulation bandwidth for VCSEL-based VLC. The proposed power-sharing VLC system can be divided to four end-users, when three beam splitters (BSs) are used simultaneously. Moreover, all of the measured bit error rates (BERs) are below the forward error correction (FEC) threshold (BER = 3.8 × 10^-3).