Visible light communication using a blue GaN µLED and fluorescent polymer colour converter

Chun, Hyunchae and Manousiadis, Pavlos and Rajbhandari, Sujan and Vithanage, Dimali A. and Faulkner, Graheme and Tsonev, Dobroslav and McKendry, Jonathan James Donald and Videv, Stefan and Xie, Enyuan and Gu, Erdan and Dawson, Martin D. and Haas, Harald and Turnbull, Graham A. and Samuel, Ifor D. W. and O'Brien, Dominic C. (2014) Visible light communication using a blue GaN µLED and fluorescent polymer colour converter. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 26 (20). 2035 - 2038. ISSN 1041-1135 (https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2014.2345256)

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Abstract

This letter presents a novel technique to achieve high-speed visible light communication (VLC) using white light generated by a blue GaN (mu ) LED and a yellow fluorescent copolymer. We generated white light suitable for room illumination by optimizing the ratio between the blue electroluminescence of the (mu ) LED and yellow photoluminescence of the copolymer color converter. Taking advantage of the components’ high bandwidth, we demonstrated 1.68 Gb/s at a distance of 3 cm (at 240 lx illumination). To the best of our knowledge, this is the fastest white light VLC results using a single blue LED/color converter combination.

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Chun, Hyunchae, Manousiadis, Pavlos, Rajbhandari, Sujan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8742-118X, Vithanage, Dimali A., Faulkner, Graheme, Tsonev, Dobroslav, McKendry, Jonathan James Donald ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6379-3955, Videv, Stefan, Xie, Enyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7776-8091, Gu, Erdan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7607-9902, Dawson, Martin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-2989, Haas, Harald, Turnbull, Graham A., Samuel, Ifor D. W. and O'Brien, Dominic C.;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:54400
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    15 October 2014
    Published
    5 August 2014
    Published Online
    22 July 2014
    Accepted
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    Subjects:Science > Physics > Optics. Light
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics > Institute of Photonics
    Technology and Innovation Centre > Photonics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:30 Sep 2015 10:44
    Last modified:20 Nov 2024 01:10
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/54400
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