Proposal and Preliminary Experiments of Indoor Optical Wireless LAN Based on a CMOS Image Sensor with a High-Speed Readout Function Enabling a Low-Power Compact Module with Large Uplink Capacity

IEICE Transactions on Communications

Volumn E86-B, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1498-1507

  Kagawa, Keiichiro ^a,b   Nishimura, Tomohiro ^a   Hirai, Takao ^a   Yamasaki, Yasushi ^b   Asazu, Hiroaki ^a   Kawakami, Tomoaki ^a   Ohta, Jun ^a   Nunoshita, Masahiro ^a   Watanabe, Kunihiro ^b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Microsignal Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

CMOS image sensor; Free space optical communication; Indoor optical wireless LAN; MEMS mirror; Space division multiple access

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SENSORS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION;

OPTICAL SIGNALS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0141903965     PISSN: 09168516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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