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1.1 GBIT/S white lighting LED ‐based visible light link with pulse amplitude modulation and Volterra DFE equalization
Author(s) -
Stepniak Grzegorz,
Maksymiuk Lukasz,
Siuzdak Jerzy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.29182
Subject(s) - equalization (audio) , visible light communication , pulse amplitude modulation , transmission (telecommunications) , photodiode , modulation (music) , transmitter , electronic engineering , gigabit , amplitude modulation , optics , pulse (music) , physics , telecommunications , computer science , engineering , radio frequency , frequency modulation , detector , channel (broadcasting) , light emitting diode , acoustics
We report a visible light communication link that uses a white phosphorescent LED as transmitter and a p‐i‐n photodiode combined with blue optical filter as a receiver. Multilevel pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) is used for data transmission. It is shown that a receiver with a decision feedback equalizer and nonlinear second‐order Volterra feed‐forward section allows for 1.1 Gbit/s throughput at BER = 10–3 when used with PAM‐4. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Microwave Opt Technol Lett 57:1620–1622, 2015