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Gigabit LED‐based visible light transparent transmission from free‐space to a 100‐m ultra‐large effective area pure silica fiber
Author(s) -
Shi Jianyang,
Zhou Yingjun,
Chi Nan,
Xiong Liangming,
Luo Jie
Publication year - 2018
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.30914
Subject(s) - materials science , optics , visible light communication , transmission (telecommunications) , gigabit , optical fiber , bit error rate , fiber , multi mode optical fiber , optoelectronics , dispersion shifted fiber , wavelength division multiplexing , light emitting diode , channel (broadcasting) , wavelength , fiber optic sensor , telecommunications , physics , computer science , composite material
We experimentally demonstrate the LED‐based visible light transmission (VLC) over a 100‐m special designed low‐loss ultra‐large effective area (diameter >1 mm) pure silica fiber (ULEAPS fiber). Three‐channel wavelength multiplexing is achieved by using a single chip RGB LED as the light source. The total insertion loss after 100‐meter transmission for the red light, green light and blue light are 1.015, 1.582, and 3.660 dB, respectively. A total data rate of 3.1 Gb s −1 is experimentally achieved over 5‐m ULEAPS fiber and a data rate of 2 Gb s −1 is achieved over 100‐m fiber with the bit error rate (BER) below 7% forward error correction (FEC) limit of 3.8 × 10 −3 . The results obtained here may also serve as a valuable information on how to realize LED based VLC transparent transmission from free‐space to a pure silica fiber utilizing a commercial illumination LED as the light source.