High Data Rate Optical Wireless Communications: Where Next?

Journal article

Recently there have been demonstrations of Gbit/s communications systems using infra-red optical wireless. There are also reports of much higher link data rate experiments, and simulated architectures that will operate at several Gbit/s. In this paper we review the Gbit/s system that was fabricated at Oxford as part of a recent European Community funded project, as an example of the challenges that face high data rate optical wireless. Approaches to exceeding 1 Gbit/s are described, together with the limitations that they have. Several potential future directions are outlined. © 2012 IEEE.

Authors: O'Brien, D

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: 2012 14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON TRANSPARENT OPTICAL NETWORKS (ICTON 2012)
• Publication date: 2012-01-01
• DOI: 10.1109/ICTON.2012.6253850
• EISSN: 2162-7339
• ISSN: 2162-7339
• Language: English
• Keywords: wireless communications; optical communications; optical wireless