High Bandwidth GaN-Based Micro-LEDs for Multi-Gb/s Visible Light Communications

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 2023-2026

  Ferreira, Ricardo X G ^a   Xie, Enyuan ^a   McKendry, Jonathan J D ^a   Rajbhandari, Sujan ^b   Chun, Hyunchae ^c   Faulkner, Grahame ^c   Watson, Scott ^d   Kelly, Anthony E ^d   Gu, Erdan ^a   Penty, Richard V ^e   White, Ian H ^e   O'Brien, Dominic C ^c   Dawson, Martin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute for Clean Growth and Future Mobility   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; GaN; micro light emitting diodes; OFDM; optical communication; PAM; visible light communication

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; GALLIUM NITRIDE; LIGHT; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; MODULATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; PULSE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRICAL-TO-OPTICAL; GALLIUM NITRIDES (GAN); HIGH BANDWIDTH; MODULATION BANDWIDTH; MODULATION SCHEMES; OPTICAL SPECTRA; VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATIONS (VLC); WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS;

VISIBLE LIGHT COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84980045929     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2016.2581318     Document Type: Article

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