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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 23, Issue 10, Pages 13051-13059Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.23.013051
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- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C. [MOST 102-2221-E-009-131-MY3, MOST 104-3113-E-009-002-CC2, MOST 101-2221-E-002-071-MY3, MOST 103-2221-E-002-042-MY3, MOST 103-2218-E-002-017-MY3]
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A TO-38-can packaged Gallium nitride (GaN) blue laser diode (LD) based free-space visible light communication (VLC) with 64-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) and 32-subcarrier orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission at 9 Gbps is preliminarily demonstrated over a 5-m free-space link. The 3-dB analog modulation bandwidth of the TO-38-can packaged GaN blue LD biased at 65 mA and controlled at 25 degrees C is only 900 MHz, which can be extended to 1.5 GHz for OFDM encoding after throughput intensity optimization. When delivering the 4-Gbps 16-QAM OFDM data within 1-GHz bandwidth, the error vector magnitude (EVM), signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bit-error-rate (BER) of the received data are observed as 8.4%, 22.4 dB and 3.5 x 10(-8), respectively. By increasing the encoded bandwidth to 1.5 GHz, the TO-38-can packaged GaN blue LD enlarges its transmission capacity to 6 Gbps but degrades its transmitted BER to 1.7 x 10(-3). The same transmission capacity of 6 Gbps can also be achieved with a BER of 1 x 10(-6) by encoding 64-QAM OFDM data within 1-GHz bandwidth. Using the 1.5-GHz full bandwidth of the TO-38-can packaged GaN blue LD provides the 64-QAM OFDM transmission up to 9 Gbps, which successfully delivers data with an EVM of 5.1%, an SNR of 22 dB and a BER of 3.6 x 10(-3) passed the forward error correction (FEC) criterion. (C) 2015 Optical Society of America
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