A Long Distance Underwater Visible Light Communication System With Single Photon Avalanche Diode

By Chao Wang, Hong-yi Yu, Yijun Zhu. IEEE Photonics Journal, 2016

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Underwater visible light communication (UVLC) is of great interest to the military, industry, and the scientific community. In this paper, a long-distance UVLC system is designed, where the half power angle of light-emitting diode (LED) is narrowed to enhance the optical intensity at the transmitter, and a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) is employed at the receiver to improve the detection sensitivity. A two-term exponential channel model of a long distance UVLC system with a SPAD receiver is established, and the channel parameters are obtained by Monte Carlo numerical simulation. Furthermore, the SPAD detection algorithm and the optimal detection threshold of the UVLC system are proposed. Simulation results show that the communication distance could be extended to 500 m in pure seawater.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Instrumentation, Ocean Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Enabling Massive IoT Toward 6G: A Comprehensive Survey (2021, background): “Especially, VLC has been proven the possibility for underwater communications [69] by employing a single-photon avalanche diode for transmission in pure seawater, which maintains high data rate and low power consumption [70].”
• A Survey of Underwater Optical Wireless Communications (2017, background): “A recent numerical study shows that it is possible to achieve LED-based visible light communication over a link distance of 500m in pure seawater by employing a single photon avalanche diode [15].”
• Underwater Optical Wireless Communications: Overview (2020, background): “Therefore, Equation (4) can be rewritten as [71]:”