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Fiber-Distributed Indoor High Bitrate Optical Wireless System

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In this paper, we describe a wideband Indoor Optical Wireless distribution system based on an infrared communication channel using a dedicated distribution architecture. The idea is to provide narrow line-of-sight indoor free-space optical cells at very high rates through an optical fiber network. The wavelength used is 1,550 nm for eye safety and optical power budget reasons. To validate the system performance using standard On-Off Keying modulation, we calculate the power budget and simulate the overall link, showing that an implementation with commercially available components can lead to 2.5 Gbps operational optical wireless links.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Institut Telecom, France, for partly funding this project, the Collège Doctoral International/Université Européenne de Bretagne (CDI/UEB) and “Conseil Régional de Bretagne” for their financial help, and Marie-Laure Moulinard for fruitful discussions.

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  1. Optics Department, Telecom Bretagne, CS 83818, 29238 , Brest Cedex 3, France

    Hani Al Hajjar & Bruno Fracasso

  2. Signal & Communications Department, UMR CNRS 3192 Lab-STICC, Telecom Bretagne, CS 83818, 29238 , Brest Cedex 3, France

    Dominique Leroux

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Al Hajjar, H., Fracasso, B. & Leroux, D. Fiber-Distributed Indoor High Bitrate Optical Wireless System. Wireless Pers Commun 72, 1771–1782 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1134-8

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