Open AccessReal-time investigation of CAP transceivers with hybrid digital equalization for visible light communication
Author(s) -
Yanfeng Mao,
Xianqing Jin,
Weidong Pan,
Weijie Liu,
Meiyu Jin,
Chen Gong,
Zhengyuan Xu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
optics express
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 271
ISSN - 1094-4087
DOI - 10.1364/oe.27.009382
Subject(s) - visible light communication , bandwidth (computing) , computer science , electronic engineering , equalization (audio) , light emitting diode , spectral efficiency , transceiver , transmission (telecommunications) , data transmission , bit error rate , telecommunications , optics , engineering , computer hardware , physics , wireless , decoding methods , beamforming
In a practical light emitted diodes (LEDs)-based visible light communication (VLC) system, high-speed transmission is generally limited by the LED bandwidth. To address the bandwidth limitation, a hybrid digital linear and decision-feedback equalization (DFE) is investigated to improve the transmission performance (or spectral efficiency) in the carrier-less amplitude phase modulation (CAP)-based VLC systems. A real-time CAP-VLC transceiver with the hybrid digital equalization is designed, based on which 200 Mb/s transmission is successfully demonstrated over a 15 m VLC link with the commercial red LEDs (bandwidth: 6.5 MHz). In the real-time CAP-VLC system, the baseline wander (BLW) is observed, due to the removal of the low-frequency components with a direct current (DC) block. The BLW effect can be mitigated by increasing the roll-off factor. However, this roll-off factor affects the equalization performance, due to an increased loss in the signal spectrum beyond the system bandwidth. Optimization of the roll-off factor and filter length is required. Experimental results show that, with the optimized real-time transceiver design, the hybrid Wiener/recursive least squares (RLS) and DFE significantly improves the error vector magnitude (EVM) performance compared with the DFE. In addition, the digital signal processing (DSP) complexity is discussed.