• Journal of Applied Optics
  • Vol. 44, Issue 5, 1133 (2023)
Jiachi PENG1, Jianzhong GUO1,*, Yanlong LI2, Liang ZHANG3..., Ying ZHOU3, Yong AI3 and Hexi LIANG4|Show fewer author(s)
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430200, China
  • 2Key Laboratory of Cognitive Radio and Information Processing (Ministry of Education), Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin 541004, China
  • 3Optical Communication Equipment Research and Development Department, Wuhan Liubo Optoelectronic Technology Co.,Ltd., Wuhan 430072, China
  • 4School of Computer and Information Engineering, Hubei Normal University, Huangshi 435002, China
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    DOI: 10.5768/JAO202344.0508002 Cite this Article
    Jiachi PENG, Jianzhong GUO, Yanlong LI, Liang ZHANG, Ying ZHOU, Yong AI, Hexi LIANG. Application of channel multiplexing technology in LED underwater visible light communication[J]. Journal of Applied Optics, 2023, 44(5): 1133 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Underwater visible light communication (UVLC) system with light emitting diode (LED) as transmitter has a low transmission rate due to the limited device bandwidth and it is greatly affected by water environment quality that makes the communication comprehensive performance poor. In order to improve the channel capacity and communication quality, the channel multiplexing technology into the LED-UVLC system was applied. The FPGA was used as the data processing core, LED blue and green light emission array and avalanche photodiode (APD) receiving array were built, and a 4×4 multichannel UVLC system was designed. We placed the system in an underwater environment with a length of 20 m and achieved bidirectional transmission with a bit error rate (BER) of approximately 10?7 at a communication rate of 26.7 Mbit/s. The experimental results show that when transmitting data files of different sizes, compared with the traditional single input single output (SISO)-UVLC system, the communication time is saved about 4 times and the channel capacity gain is consistent with the simulation. In addition, with the same water quality and communication distance, the system can achieve better BER performance.
    Jiachi PENG, Jianzhong GUO, Yanlong LI, Liang ZHANG, Ying ZHOU, Yong AI, Hexi LIANG. Application of channel multiplexing technology in LED underwater visible light communication[J]. Journal of Applied Optics, 2023, 44(5): 1133
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