Novel Unipolar Optical Modulation Techniques for Enhancing Visible Light Communication Systems Performance

Abstract

Visible Light Communications (VLC) are receiving increased attention in the wireless communications research community. VLC is secured, power efficient, and operates in the visible light range, thus RF communication bandwidth limitation is overcome. In this article, the authors enhance the data rate, system complexity, power efficiency, and spectrum efficiency in VLC systems. An innovative unipolar transceiver system is proposed, mathematically analyzed, and compared with other existing techniques and it demonstrates to have a very high data rate ratio (43.75%) with a good system bit energy to noise ratio ${(E}_{b}/N_{O})$ compared to other existing techniques. Development for the traditional asymmetrically and symmetrically clipping optical (ASCO-OFDM) system is also proposed, which involves combining a modified receiver with the ASCO-OFDM system traditional transmitter. The proposed receiver reduces the system complexity by O ( $N\log _{2}N$ ) with better $E_{b}/N_{O}$ than the conventional ASCO-OFDM. Detailed analysis, simulation results, and comparison of the proposed systems with the existing systems are presented beside a brief assessment of existing techniques.

Keywords

• ACO-OFDM
• ADO-OFDM
• ASCO-OFDM
• DCO-OFDM
• E-ASCO OFDM
• spectral efficiency