We propose a two-cascaded, constant-resistance, symmetrical bridged-T amplitude equalizer for a high-speed visible light communication(VLC) system. With the pre-equalization circuit, the-3 d B bandwidth of the VLC s...We propose a two-cascaded, constant-resistance, symmetrical bridged-T amplitude equalizer for a high-speed visible light communication(VLC) system. With the pre-equalization circuit, the-3 d B bandwidth of the VLC system can be extended from 12 to 235 MHz using a commercially available phosphorescent white light-emitting diode(LED), a blue filter, and a low-cost PIN photodiode. The data rate is 1.20 Gbit/s, exploiting 16-quadrature amplitude modulation-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing with a 300 MHz modulation bandwidth over50 cm of free-space transmission under the pre-forward error correction limit of 3.8 × 10^-3. To our knowledge,this is the highest-3 d B bandwidth and the highest data rate ever achieved by using a pre-equalization circuit and white LED in a VLC system.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61177071)the National "863" Program of China (No. 2013AA013603)
文摘We propose a two-cascaded, constant-resistance, symmetrical bridged-T amplitude equalizer for a high-speed visible light communication(VLC) system. With the pre-equalization circuit, the-3 d B bandwidth of the VLC system can be extended from 12 to 235 MHz using a commercially available phosphorescent white light-emitting diode(LED), a blue filter, and a low-cost PIN photodiode. The data rate is 1.20 Gbit/s, exploiting 16-quadrature amplitude modulation-orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing with a 300 MHz modulation bandwidth over50 cm of free-space transmission under the pre-forward error correction limit of 3.8 × 10^-3. To our knowledge,this is the highest-3 d B bandwidth and the highest data rate ever achieved by using a pre-equalization circuit and white LED in a VLC system.