Toward Long-Distance Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Based on A High-Sensitivity Single Photon Avalanche Diode

Honglan Chen; Xinwei Chen; Jie Lu; Xiaoyan Liu; Jiarong Shi; Lirong Zheng; Ran Liu; Xiaolin Zhou; Pengfei Tian

doi:10.1109/JPHOT.2020.2985205

IEEE Photonics Journal (Jan 2020)

Toward Long-Distance Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Based on A High-Sensitivity Single Photon Avalanche Diode

Honglan Chen,
Xinwei Chen,
Jie Lu,
Xiaoyan Liu,
Jiarong Shi,
Lirong Zheng,
Ran Liu,
Xiaolin Zhou,
Pengfei Tian

Affiliations

Honglan Chen: School of Information Science and Technology, Academy of Engineering and Technology, Institute for Electric Light Sources, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Xinwei Chen: ORCiD; School of Information Science and Technology, Academy of Engineering and Technology, Institute for Electric Light Sources, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Jie Lu: School of Information Science and Technology, Academy of Engineering and Technology, Institute for Electric Light Sources, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Xiaoyan Liu: School of Information Science and Technology, Academy of Engineering and Technology, Institute for Electric Light Sources, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Jiarong Shi: School of Information Science and Technology, Academy of Engineering and Technology, Institute for Electric Light Sources, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Lirong Zheng: School of Information Science and Technology, Academy of Engineering and Technology, Institute for Electric Light Sources, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Ran Liu: School of Information Science and Technology, Academy of Engineering and Technology, Institute for Electric Light Sources, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Xiaolin Zhou: ORCiD; School of Information Science and Technology, Academy of Engineering and Technology, Institute for Electric Light Sources, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Pengfei Tian: ORCiD; School of Information Science and Technology, Academy of Engineering and Technology, Institute for Electric Light Sources, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JPHOT.2020.2985205
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 3
pp. 1 – 10

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In this study, we built a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) receiver based underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) system. The bit error rate (BER) and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance of UWOC with different distances and data transmission rates were obtained. Based on the water attenuation coefficient of 0.12 m-1, a series of neutral density (ND) filters were exploited to attenuate the light output power from the blue laser diode (LD) to simulate the long distance UWOC. The maximum estimated distances of 144 m and 117 m with corresponding BERs of 1.89 × 10-3 and 5.31 × 10-4 at data transmission rates of 500 bps and 2 Mbps were acquired in UWOC system using on-off keying (OOK) modulation scheme, respectively. Furthermore, we compared the differences between free-space and underwater channels, and a divergence angle of ~1.02 mrad was measured experimentally at a distance of 50 m in the free space. The long UWOC distances obtained in this study partly benefit from high sensitivity SPAD, the small laser divergence angle and low light attenuation. This study provides an approach to achieve long distance UWOC using SPAD.

Published in IEEE Photonics Journal

ISSN: 1943-0655 (Online)
Publisher: IEEE
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General): Applied optics. Photonics; Science: Physics: Optics. Light
Website: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=4563994

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