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  1. (PDF) Optical wireless communication

    Leeds LS2 9JT, UK. 3 Vice-Chancellor's O ce, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. JE, 0000-0002-3319-9103. Optical wireless communication has attracted. significant interest ...

  2. Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in Optical Wireless

    Optical wireless communication (OWC) is an emerging area where research and development are growing worldwide. The radio-frequency (RF) spectral resource in traditional communication band has been exhausted, and frequency allocation will be a big issue, particularly for the future 6G networks. The non-terrestrial-networks (NTN) in 6G introduce new applications, such as automatic logistics with ...

  3. Recent trends in wireless and optical fiber communication

    Abstract. The broad spectrum of optical wireless communication meets the needs of high-speed wireless communication, which is optical wireless communication's primary advantage over traditional wireless communication technologies. Optical fiber communications, as significant use of laser technology, are vital facilitators for the contemporary ...

  4. Next generation optical wireless communication: a comprehensive review

    Author contribution: All the authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this submitted manuscript and approved submission.. Research funding: None declared. Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding this article. References. 1. Sharma, P, Pardeshi, S, Arora, RK, Singh, M. A review of the development in the field of fiber optic ...

  5. Next generation optical wireless communication: A comprehensive review

    4 D. Garg and A. Nain: Next generation optical wireless communication spliced via a 2 or 3 level splitter with a split ratio, for instance 1:32 to distribute the channels depending on the

  6. Optical Wireless Hybrid Networks: Trends, Opportunities, Challenges

    Abstract: Optical wireless communication (OWC) is an excellent complementary solution to its radio frequency (RF) counterpart. OWC technologies have been demonstrated to be able to support high traffic generated by massive connectivity of the Internet of Things (IoT) and upcoming 5 th generation (5G) wireless communication systems. As the characteristics of OWC and RF are complementary, a ...

  7. A Comparative Survey of Optical Wireless Technologies: Architectures

    future high-data-rate 5G services. Optical wireless communication (OWC), which uses an ultra-wide range of unregulated spectrum, has emerged as a promising solution to overcome the RF spectrum crisis. It has attracted growing research interest worldwide in the last decade for indoor and outdoor applications.

  8. Optical wireless communications

    Optical wireless communication (OWC) enables wireless connectivity using infrared, visible or ultraviolet bands. With its powerful features such as high bandwidth, low cost and operation in an unregulated spectrum, OWC can be, in some applications, a powerful alternative to and, in others, complementary to the existing wireless technologies. It is one of the most promising current areas of ...

  9. Optical Wireless Communications

    Optical Wireless Communications is a valuable reference guide for academic researchers and practitioners concerned with the future development of the world's communication networks. ... He has authored more than 220 journal and conference papers on these topics and received more than 3800 citations. ... His current research interests lie in ...

  10. Optical wireless communication

    Here the network hypervisor directs the specific data flows based on the characteristics of the respective communication links (RF and optical). Elmirghani et al. have developed novel optical wireless networking architectures. This special issue includes a research paper on optical cloud and fog network architectures led by this group.

  11. Optical Wireless Communication

    It also began research on optical wireless communication network systems with ultra-long-range transmission and communication code rates (5-10 Gbit/s). In 2018, the team developed a 10-km outfield experiment with an integrated transceiver and successfully transmitted video and voice signals. In 2021, the team initially developed a near ...

  12. The Role of Optical Wireless Communication Technologies in 5G/6G and

    Optical wireless communication (OWC), along with many other wireless technologies, is a promising candidate for serving the demands of 5GB communication systems. ... provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. Feature papers are submitted upon individual invitation or recommendation by the ...

  13. Optical Wireless Communication Systems, A Survey

    [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. Abstract—In the past few years, the demand for high data rate services has increased dramatically. The congestion in the radio frequency (RF) spectrum (3 kHz ~ 300 GHz) is expected to limit the growth of future wireless systems unless new parts of ...

  14. Transmitter and receiver technologies for optical wireless

    Providing a reliable link, with sufficient signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bandwidth to deliver high-capacity communications is a critical challenge for optical wireless (OW) communications and understanding and jointly optimizing the performance of the transmitter and receiver subsystems is a key part of this.

  15. Optical wireless communication systems

    This special issue brings together research papers on OWC covering free space optic, visible communications and ultraviolet communications. ... and a member of OSA. He is a co-author of a CRC book on "Optical Wireless Communications - Systems and Channel Modelling with Matlab (2012); and co-editor of four books including the Springer book ...

  16. A survey of optical wireless technologies: practical considerations

    Advancement in space technologies and development in space-based instruments opened a new horizon of space-based optical wireless communication. Research fraternity is working to design optical ... In this survey, we have briefly discussed emerging OWC technologies. The major optical wireless technologies outlined in this paper are FSO, VLC ...

  17. (PDF) Optical Wireless Hybrid Networks: Trends, Opportunities

    Optical wireless communication (OWC) is an excellent complementary solution to its radio frequency (RF) counterpart. OWC technologies have been demonstrated to be able to support high traffic ...

  18. Long‐Range Optical Wireless Communication System Based on a Large‐Area

    This paper presents an innovative OWC system, based on a high-power blue LED and a large-area FC-based on CuInS 2 quantum dots (Q-Dots) as receiving optical stage. A thorough characterization of the FC material in terms of conversion efficiency, temporal response, and FoV is provided, along with a full set of outdoor measurements.

  19. Optical Wireless Communications: Research Challenges for MAC Layer

    Optical wireless communication (OWC) has emerged as a potential addition to current wireless technologies because of its high capacity, security, and unlicensed spectrum. In addition, owing to recent advancements in optoelectronic components and the industry's globalization, OWC has become a promising solution for addressing upcoming bandwidth requirements and the "border mile bottleneck ...

  20. PDF Optical Wireless Communication: A Future Perspective For Next ...

    This paper aims at reviewing and summarizing recent advancements in OW communication, with the main focus on perspective of optical wireless system for next generation wireless networks. Index Terms— Hybrid wireless systems, Indoor infrared wireless communications, Infrared, wireless communication, local area networks, Optical wireless ...

  21. Experimental study of laser spot tracking for underwater optical

    In this paper, a novel laser spot tracking algorithm that incorporates the Kalman filter with the continuously adaptive Meanshift algorithm (Cam-Kalm) is proposed and employed in an underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) system. Since the Kalman filter has the advantage of predicting the state information of the target spot based on its spatial motion features, the proposed algorithm ...

  22. Optical wireless communication

    Optical wireless communication has attracted significant interest recently in industry and academia. This special issue features a collection of inter-related papers with the intention to cover all necessary multidisciplinary challenges to realize optical wireless networks. ... This special issue includes a research paper on optical cloud and ...

  23. A review of optical networking technologies supporting 5G communication

    The advanced communication networks require heterogeneous emerging technologies to be combined while enabling various future applications. The integration of 5G wireless and optical technology is considered an unavoidable approach to reach this goal. Based on 5G mobile communications and densification of cells, the upcoming idea of smart city becomes feasible and put on a lot of attention from ...

  24. Free Space Optical Networks: Applications, Challenges and Research

    Free Space Optics (FSO) is an optical communication technique which disseminates light in free space such as air, vacuum or celestial space, to wirelessly transfer data. FSO communication offers high data rates up to 2.5 Gbps over a range of 100 m to a few kilometers and has the potential to replace the traditional means of communications in a wide variety of applications. Despite advantages ...

  25. Optical Communications and Networks

    This is the first issue in 2020 of the Optical Communications and Networks Series (OCNS). This series presents articles on the latest developments in this key technology field, which offers unprecedented communication capacity and cost-effective interconnection capability to support a variety of bandwidth-hungry wireline and wireless applications. In this issue, we have selected three ...

  26. Underwater Optical Wireless Communication

    A hybrid approach to an acousto-optic communication system is presented that complements the existing acoustic system, resulting in high data rates, low latency, and an energy-efficient system. Published in: IEEE Access ( Volume: 4 ) Article #: Page (s): 1518 - 1547. Date of Publication: 11 April 2016. ISSN Information: Electronic ISSN: 2169-3536.

  27. Photonic-assisted W-band flexible integrated sensing and communication

    In our system, a 10-km optical fiber and a 1-m free space transmission are incorporated, achieving seamless fiber-wireless networks. As a result, we achieved data rates ranging from 8 to 15.4 Gbit/s and range resolution ranging from 1.5 to 7.5 cm, respectively.

  28. Optical Communications and Photonics: Future Capability Paper

    The UK's Optical Communications and Photonics sector dates back to the 1960s and the invention of optical fibre. Yet, despite its history of innovation and tech advancements, an imbalance has occurred: the once roughly equal ratio of imports to exports has become 3:1 today. What does this mean for ...

  29. Introduction to the JOCN Special Issue on the Impact of Photonic

    This paper reports two implementations of power-over-fiber (PoF) solutions applied to radio-over-fiber (RoF) and optical wireless communication (OWC) systems, in the context of an industrial ...

  30. Wireless ear EEG to monitor drowsiness

    These results demonstrate wireless, dry, user-generic earpieces used to classify drowsiness with comparable accuracies to existing state-of-the-art, wet electrode in-ear and scalp systems.