A 10 Mb/s visible light communication system using a low bandwidth polymer light-emitting diode

P.A. Haigh, F. Bausi, T. Kanesan, S.T. Le, S. Rajbhandari, Z. Ghassemlooy, I. Papakonstantinou, W.O. Popoola, A. Burton, H. le Minh, A.D. Ellis, F. Cacialli

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Abstract

In this paper we experimentally demonstrate a 10 Mb/s error free visible light communications (VLC) system using polymer light-emitting diodes (PLEDs) for the first time. The PLED under test is a blue emitter with ∼600 kHz bandwidth. Having such a low bandwidth means the introduction of an intersymbol interference (ISI) induced penalty at higher transmission speeds and thus the requirement for an equalizer. In this work we improve on previous literature by implementing a decision feedback equalizer, rather than a linear equalizer. Considering 7% and 20% forward error correction codes, transmission speeds up to ∼12 Mb/s can be supported.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2014 9th international symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signl Processing, CSNDSP 2014
PublisherIEEE
Pages999-1004
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)978-1-4799-2581-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Event9th IEEE/IET international symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signl Processing - Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom
Duration: 23 Jul 201425 Jul 2014

Symposium

Symposium9th IEEE/IET international symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signl Processing
Abbreviated titleCSNDSP 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityManchester
Period23/07/1425/07/14

Bibliographical note

©2014 Crown

Keywords

  • bit error rate
  • equalizers
  • intersymbol interference
  • organic light emitting diodes
  • visible light communications

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