Gb/s optical wireless communications up to 17 meters using a UV-C micro-light-emitting diode

Maclure, Daniel M. and McKendry, Jonathan J.D. and Chen, Cheng and Xie, Enyuan and Hill, Jordan and Gu, Erdan and Herrnsdorf, Johannes and Haas, Harald and Dawson, Martin D.; (2022) Gb/s optical wireless communications up to 17 meters using a UV-C micro-light-emitting diode. In: The Annual Conference of the IEEE Photonics society. IEEE, CAN. ISBN 9781665434874 (https://doi.org/10.1109/IPC53466.2022.9975654)

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Abstract

We demonstrate Gb/s data rates up to distances of 17m using a single UV-C micro-light-emitting diode and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing modulation. To our knowledge, this is the longest reported range for Gb/s UV-C LED-based optical wireless communications.