Visible light communications employing PPM and PWM formats for simultaneous data transmission and dimming

Optical and Quantum Electronics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 561-574

  Choi, Joon ho ^a   Cho, Eun byeol ^a   Ghassemlooy, Zabih ^b   Kim, Soeun ^c   Lee, Chung Ghiu ^a  

^a Chosun University   (South Korea)

^b NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dimming control; Illumination; Light emitting diodes; Optical communications; Optical wireless communications; PPM; PWM; Visible light communications

Indexed keywords

DATA STREAMS; DATA TRANSFER; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHTING; LUMINANCE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PULSE POSITION MODULATION; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; VOLTAGE CONTROL;

BRIGHTNESS CONTROL; DATA-COMMUNICATION; DIMMING CONTROL; EYE DIAGRAMS; INDEPENDENT CONTROL; OPTICAL WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS; ROOM ENVIRONMENT; TRANSMITTING DATA;

VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84924224404     PISSN: 03068919     EISSN: 1572817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11082-014-9932-0     Document Type: Article

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