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Visible-light communication using high-power LED panel-lamp and low-complexity MOSFET circuit

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A high-power light-emitting diode (LED) panel-lamp connected in series with a low-complexity modulation circuit using metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) is proposed for an indoor visible-light communication system. The MOSFET modulation circuit consists of a high-speed MOSFET and a shunt resistor, in which the MOSFET gives a variable load driven by the data bit stream and the shunt resistor can tune the modulation depth of the transmitter. In addition, only focusing optical lens is employed in the receiver but no collimation optical lens is adopted in the transmitter to increase the working area. Although the largest data rate is limited to 2 Mbps, the longitudinal communication distances is as long as 6 m; moreover, the maximum horizontal distance is up to 5 m (~ 78.5 m2 in area) along with 3 m in longitudinal distance at the data rates of 1 Mbps. Compared with the traditional Bias-Tee configuration, the proposed MOSFET configuration leads to a lower data rate but a higher modulation depth as well as much larger working area. To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest working area at such a high data rate with on–off-keying using a single LED luminary without collimation optical lens. The system has the inherent ability to realize pulse amplitude modulation (PAM). The 4-PAM is demonstrated to double the data rates.

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This work is supported by the Science and Technology Program of Guangdong Province under Grant No. 2017A050501006; the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province under Grant No. 2018A030310373; the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in China; and the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program for College Students under Grant No. X202010561724.

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  1. Engineering Research Center for Optoelectronics of Guangdong Province, School of Physics and Optoelectronics, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

    Huamao Huang, Tianxiang Lan, Cheng Huang, Chao Wang, Chukun Huang & Siyuan Zhou

  2. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

    Huamao Huang & Linsheng Lu

  3. Guangzhou Institute of Modern Industrial Technology, Guangzhou, China

    Huamao Huang

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Huang, H., Lan, T., Huang, C. et al. Visible-light communication using high-power LED panel-lamp and low-complexity MOSFET circuit. Opt Quant Electron 53, 38 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-020-02700-2

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