PRESENTED BY,

ANITHA.S
SATHYA.G
 Laser (small FoV and restricted to LOS)
 Amplitude constraints
o Transmitter
• Baseband processing in electrical domain
• E/O Conversion

• Non-negativity of the signal

• Eye-safety regulations for laser

o Receiver
• O/E Conversion (Photo detector, Image sensor)
• Baseband processing in electrical domain
 (large FoV and LOS/NLOS)
OWC – APPLICATIONS
Depending on the intended application, variations of OWC
(UV, IR, VL) can serve as a powerful alternative,
complementary or supportive technology to the existing
ones

• Ultra-short range (e.g., optical circuit interconnects)

• Short range (e.g., WBAN, WPAN)

• Medium range (e.g., WLAN, VANET)

• Long range (e.g., inter-building connections)

• Ultra-long range (e.g., satellite line)

~mm m km >10,000 km
 In-flight Entertainment
Conference
Rooms

Precise Indoor
In-flight Entertainment Positioning
IoT: Car2Car,
Car2Infra
 Retrieval of physical and bio-chemical information of the
individual through the use of wearable computing devices
 Personal area networks: “Last meter” connectivity for interconnecting
devices centered around an individual person's workspace

 Giga-IR ~ 1.25 Gb/s (limited mobility)

• 10Gb/s IR under development

• IEEE 802.15.7: Enhanced mobility but limited data rate

o Smart phone communication using visible light (phone-to-
phone, phone-to-TV, phone-to-vending machine, phone-to-
POS machine, phone-to-ATM etc)
 o Aircraft-to-aircraft
o Aircraft-to-ground
o Aircraft-to-satellite
o Aircraft-to-HAP
o Drones

Cube reCorner flector

OWC terminal

Ground station @ 4 km
 Optical wireless was limited for a long
time due to insufficient power

 Recently, low-cost high-power LEDs

became available using infrared and
visible light

 For data transmission, LED can be

modulated at high speed

 Flicker is not visible for human eye

o Large band with capacity
o Unregulated spectrum
o High degree of spatial security
o confinement

o High reuse factor

o Inherent

o Robustness to EMI
o Can be safely used in RF restricted
areas (hospitals, airplanes, spacecrafts,
industrial areas etc)