Hundred-meter Gb/s deep ultraviolet wireless communications using AlGaN micro-LEDs

Maclure, Daniel M. and Chen, Cheng and McKendry, Jonathan J. D. and Xie, Enyuan and Hill, Jordan and Herrnsdorf, Johannes and Gu, Erdan and Haas, Harald and Dawson, Martin D. (2022) Hundred-meter Gb/s deep ultraviolet wireless communications using AlGaN micro-LEDs. Optics Express, 30 (26). pp. 46811-46821. ISSN 1094-4087 (https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.475049)

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Abstract

We demonstrate the use of deep ultraviolet (DUV) micro-light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for long-distance line-of-sight optical wireless communications. With a single 285 nm-emitting micro-LED, we have respectively achieved data rates greater than 6.5 Gb/s at a distance of 10 m and 4 Gb/s at 60 m. Moreover, we obtained >1 Gb/s data rates at a distance of 116 m. To our knowledge, these results are the highest data rates at such distances thus far reported using DUV micro-LEDs and the first demonstration of Gb/s communication at >100 m using any micro-LED-based transmitter.

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Maclure, Daniel M., Chen, Cheng, McKendry, Jonathan J. D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6379-3955, Xie, Enyuan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7776-8091, Hill, Jordan, Herrnsdorf, Johannes ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3856-5782, Gu, Erdan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7607-9902, Haas, Harald and Dawson, Martin D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6639-2989;
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