Abstract
Visible light communication is an emerging high-speed optical wireless communication technology that can be a candidate to alleviate pressure on conventional radio frequency-based technology. In this paper, for the first time, the advanced modulation format of probabilistic shaping (PS) bit loading is investigated in a high data rate visible light communication system based on a 450-nm Gallium Nitride laser diode. The characteristic of the system is discussed and PS bit loading discrete multi-tone modulation helps to raise the spectral efficiency and improve the system performance. Higher entropy can be achieved in the same signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and modulation bandwidth limitation, comparing to bit and power loading. With PS bit loading, an available information rate (AIR) of 10.23 Gbps is successfully achieved at the signal bandwidth of 1.5 GHz in a 1.2 m free space transmission with normalized generalized mutual information above 0.92. And higher AIR can be anticipated with an entropy-loading strategy that fixes the channel characteristic. Experimental results validate that a PS bit loading scheme has the potential to increase the system capacity.
Highlights
Due to the great demand for higher data rate transmission and the over-crowdedness of the bandwidth of conventional radio frequency (RF) based communication technology, the use of visible light communication (VLC) as an alternative technology has aroused considerable interest from researchers
A quadrature phase-shift keying (QPSK) discrete multi-tone (DMT) signal was used as the sequence to test the VLC channel and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) table was built by channel estimation
A large linear were experimentally obtained at the laser diodes (LD) which were experimentally obtained at 24 °C
Summary
Due to the great demand for higher data rate transmission and the over-crowdedness of the bandwidth of conventional radio frequency (RF) based communication technology, the use of visible light communication (VLC) as an alternative technology has aroused considerable interest from researchers. With a single-color LED, more than a 3 Gbps data rate was successfully achieved [5] and more than a 20 Gbps VLC system based on a multichromatic LED array chip was experimentally demonstrated utilizing wavelength-division-multiplexed technology [6]. Micro-LED was able to accomplish around a 10 Gbps data transmission rate based on a higher bandwidth [7]. Due to the limited modulation bandwidth of LEDs at 10 s–100 s MHz and the efficiency droop problem for micro-LED [8], realizing a much higher data rate (gigabit class range) is still a challenge
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