Ultra-high speed optical wireless communications with gallium-nitride microLED

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luc Maret ◽  
Alexandre Lagrange ◽  
Ludovic Dupré
Keyword(s):  
Gallium Nitride ◽  
Wireless Communications ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Optical Wireless Communications ◽  
Ultra High Speed

scholarly journals Gallium nitride micro-light-emitting diode structured light sources for multi-modal optical wireless communications systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 378 (2169) ◽  
pp. 20190185 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Griffiths ◽  
J. Herrnsdorf ◽  
J. J. D. McKendry ◽  
M. J. Strain ◽  
M. D. Dawson
Keyword(s):  
Gallium Nitride ◽  
Wireless Communications ◽  
Structured Light ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Optical Wireless Communications ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Micro Scale ◽  
High Modulation ◽  
Led Array

Gallium nitride-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have revolutionized the lighting industry with their efficient generation of blue and green light. While broad-area (square millimetre) devices have become the dominant LED lighting technology, fabricating LEDs into micro-scale pixels (micro-LEDs) yields further advantages for optical wireless communications (OWC), and for the development of smart-lighting applications such as tracking and imaging. The smaller active areas of micro-LEDs result in high current density operation, providing high modulation bandwidths and increased optical power density. Fabricating micro-LEDs in array formats allows device layouts to be tailored for target applications and provides additional degrees of freedom for OWC systems. Temporal and spatial control is crucial to use the full potential of these micro-scale sources, and is achieved by bonding arrays to pitch-matched complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor control electronics. These compact, integrated chips operate as digital-to-light converters, providing optical signals from digital inputs. Applying the devices as projection systems allows structured light patterns to be used for tracking and self-location, while simultaneously providing space-division multiple access communication links. The high-speed nature of micro-LED array devices, combined with spatial and temporal control, allows many modes of operation for OWC providing complex functionality with chip-scale devices. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Optical wireless communication’.

High-speed Optical Wireless Communications for Local Area Networks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas ◽  
Tian Liang ◽  
Sampath Edirisinghe ◽  
Christina Lim ◽  
Elaine Wong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communications ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Local Area Networks ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Optical Wireless ◽  
Optical Wireless Communications
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