Nonlinearity mitigation in bandwidth limited blue LED-based OFDM-UOWC systems using differential pre-emphasis
Applied Optics
|November 27, 2024
Summary
A new differential pre-emphasis (DPE) scheme effectively combats nonlinear distortions in blue light-emitting diode (LED) based underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC). This method significantly improves bit error rate (BER) performance for various modulation formats.
Area of Science:
- Optical Wireless Communication
- Signal Processing
Background:
- Blue light-emitting diode (LED)-based underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) faces nonlinear distortions due to limited LED bandwidth, hindering performance.
- Direct current biased optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (DCO-OFDM) is a common technique in UOWC, but is susceptible to these nonlinearities.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose and experimentally validate a differential pre-emphasis (DPE) scheme to mitigate LED modulation bandwidth-induced nonlinearity in DCO-OFDM systems.
- To optimize the DPE scheme for different modulation formats and symbol rates to improve transmission performance.
Main Methods:
- Implementation and experimental validation of a differential pre-emphasis (DPE) scheme for OFDM signal transmission.
- Numerical simulations were conducted for Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (QPSK), 16-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (16-QAM), and 64-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (64-QAM) at various symbol rates.
- Experimental validation was performed in a 2.5m tap water UOWC setup using an 8MHz blue-LED transmitter.
Main Results:
- The optimal DPE value was found to shorten signal rise/fall times and prevent over/undershoots.
- Simulations and experiments demonstrated that the DPE scheme significantly improves bit error rate (BER) performance, achieving over 4 orders of improvement.
- Optimized modulation format and symbol rate-dependent DPE factors were identified for minimum BER.
Conclusions:
- The differential pre-emphasis (DPE) scheme is an effective method for mitigating nonlinearity in blue LED-based UOWC systems.
- The DPE scheme enables successful high-data-rate transmissions (up to 72.28 Mb/s) under various channel conditions, including turbulence.
- The study highlights the importance of optimizing the DPE factor based on modulation format and symbol rate for superior UOWC performance.
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