Survey on Free Space Optical Communication: A Communication Theory Perspective

By Mohammad Ali Khalighi, Murat Uysal. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2014

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Underwater Optical Wireless Communications, Networking, and Localization: A Survey (2018, methodology): “Noting that PD dark current is negligible in practice [128], the transmitted light is affected by the transmitter noise caused by the fluctuations of the light intensity.”
Optical Communication in Space: Challenges and Mitigation Techniques (2017, background): “[246] M. A. Kashani, M. Safari, and M. Uysal, “Optimal relay placement and diversity analysis of relay-assisted free-space optical communication systems,” J. Opt.”
Underwater Optical Wireless Communications: Overview (2020, background): “Different OFDM schemas exist for UOWC, such as QPSK and QAM [92,93].”
Current Challenges for Visible Light Communications Usage in Vehicle Applications: A Survey (2017, background): “Detailed information regarding other modulation techniques used in VLC applications can be found in [17]–[19].”
Underwater Optical Wireless Communication (2016, background): “Many of researchers have carried out work for terrestrial and space links [1]–[6], however underwater optical wireless links are relatively less explored as it is more challenging than atmospheric links.”
Index Modulation Techniques for Next-Generation Wireless Networks (2017, background): “form is modulated onto the instantaneous power of the optical carrier [270]–[274].”
A Survey on Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing Mechanisms for Mobile Free-Space Optical Communications (2018, background): “, atmospheric turbulence), where the transmitted beam may deviate from its intended path [3].”
Terahertz Band: The Last Piece of RF Spectrum Puzzle for Communication Systems (2019, methodology): “The optical wireless connectivity is permitted using infrared, visible, or ultraviolet sub-bands, offering a wide range performance of coverage and data rate [182].”
A Survey of Underwater Optical Wireless Communications (2017, methodology): “likelihood (ML) method, and ML sequence method [104] can also be employed by the UOWC OOK systems.”
Visible Light Communication, Networking, and Sensing: A Survey, Potential and Challenges (2015, background): “Compared to [11] and [12] where authors surveyed free-space communication along with other forms of optical wireless communications, the primary focus of this survey is narrower and more detailed towards visible light communication.”
LED Based Indoor Visible Light Communications: State of the Art (2015, background): “covered the aspects of Free Space Optics (FSO) for outdoor long range links mainly focusing towards IR in [17].”
Visible Light Communication: Concepts, Applications and Challenges (2019, background): “Applications using such nomenclature tend to be very complex, dealing with atmospheric turbulences [45], [46] and high-cost equipment [47].”
Deep Learning Framework for Wireless Systems: Applications to Optical Wireless Communications (2018, background): “Optical wireless communication (OWC), which exploits terahertz spectra, has been regarded as a promising solution for enabling much higher data rate in the fifth generation (5G) communication systems [1].”
Channel Modeling for Diffusive Molecular Communication—A Tutorial Review (2018, background): “…for photon-counting receivers in optical wireless communications where the shot noise at the receiver has two components, one generated by the laser transmitter (analogous to diffusion noise) and one generated by the ambient background light (analogous to interfering noise molecules) [114].”
User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks: A Survey of Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions (2021, background): “Finally, in Table IV we summarize some advantages and current drawbacks of selected solutions targeting fron-thaul links.”
A Survey of Positioning Systems Using Visible LED Lights (2018, background): “During recent years, many in-depth surveys on VLC have been published [12]–[14], [22].”
Survey on 6G Frontiers: Trends, Applications, Requirements, Technologies and Future Research (2021, background): “A hybrid radio frequency and free space optical system is presented in [207], where a THz/optical link is envisaged”