A high-speed LED driver that sweeps out the remaining carriers for visible light communications

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 239-249

  Kishi, Toshiki ^a   Tanaka, Hiroyuki ^a   Umeda, Yohtaro ^a   Takyu, Osamu ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carrier sweep out; CMOS; Driver; GaAs FET; LED; Visible light communication

Indexed keywords

BIT ERROR RATE; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; GALLIUM ARSENIDE; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; SEMICONDUCTING GALLIUM;

CARRIER SWEEP-OUT; DRIVER; GAAS-FET; MODULATION SPEED; PASSIVE ELEMENTS; TRANSMISSION EXPERIMENTS; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS (VLC);

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84898444305     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2013.2292896     Document Type: Article

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