20-meter underwater wireless optical communication link with 15 Gbps data rate
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ArticleAuthors
Shen, Chao
Guo, Yujian

Oubei, Hassan M.

Ng, Tien Khee

Liu, Guangyu

Park, Kihong

Ho, Kang-Ting

Alouini, Mohamed-Slim

Ooi, Boon S.

KAUST Department
Advanced Membranes and Porous Materials Research CenterCommunication Theory Lab
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division
Electrical Engineering Program
Photonics Laboratory
Date
2016-10-24Online Publication Date
2016-10-24Print Publication Date
2016-10-31Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/622497
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The video streaming, data transmission, and remote control in underwater call for high speed (Gbps) communication link with a long channel length (∼10 meters). We present a compact and low power consumption underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system utilizing a 450-nm laser diode (LD) and a Si avalanche photodetector. With the LD operating at a driving current of 80 mA with an optical power of 51.3 mW, we demonstrated a high-speed UWOC link offering a data rate up to 2 Gbps over a 12-meter-long, and 1.5 Gbps over a record 20-meter-long underwater channel. The measured bit-error rate (BER) are 2.8 × 10-5, and 3.0 × 10-3, respectively, which pass well the forward error correction (FEC) criterion. © 2016 Optical Society of America.Citation
Shen C, Guo Y, Oubei HM, Ng TK, Liu G, et al. (2016) 20-meter underwater wireless optical communication link with 15 Gbps data rate. Optics Express 24: 25502. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.025502.Sponsors
Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) grant through National Priority Research Program (NPRP) No. 8-648-2-273.Publisher
The Optical SocietyJournal
Optics ExpressAdditional Links
https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-24-22-25502ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1364/OE.24.025502