• Frontiers of Optoelectronics
  • Vol. 4, Issue 4, 454 (2011)
Jiajie TAN1、2, Kecheng YANG1、*, and Min XIA1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, College of Optoelectronics Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China
  • 2Department of Physics and Electronic Information Science, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang 421008, China
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    DOI: 10.1007/s12200-011-0145-x Cite this Article
    Jiajie TAN, Kecheng YANG, Min XIA. Adaptive equalization for high speed optical MIMO wireless communications using white LED[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2011, 4(4): 454 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Light emitting diode (LED) is one of the most important light sources in the 21st century and has broad prospects in the illumination. Currently, the white LED is used not only for illumination, but also for transmission data. A new technique referred as visible light communication (VLC) is rapidly growing in optical communication. In order to enhance the performance of the communication link, we present optical multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) communication system to achieve high data rate, which can mitigate the shadow effect of indoor communication. Moreover, the MIMO will bring about multi-path effect, which causes inter-symbol interference (ISI) to degrade the performance of the link. Hence, an adaptive equalization technique has been used in the receiver system, which can reduce the ISI when the system is determined to receive symbol. Finally, we have simulated the MIMO system with adaptive equalization. The simulation results show significant improvement in the transmission rate using on off keying (OOK) and the average signal to noise ratio (SNR) in this channel has increased 13.5 dB after equalization.
    Jiajie TAN, Kecheng YANG, Min XIA. Adaptive equalization for high speed optical MIMO wireless communications using white LED[J]. Frontiers of Optoelectronics, 2011, 4(4): 454
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