A New LED Response Model and its Application to Pre-Equalization in VLC Systems


Kisacik R., Yagan M., Uysal M., PUSANE A. E., YALÇINKAYA A. D.

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, cilt.33, sa.17, ss.955-958, 2021 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 33 Sayı: 17
  • Basım Tarihi: 2021
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/lpt.2021.3100924
  • Dergi Adı: IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Aerospace Database, Communication Abstracts, Compendex, INSPEC, Metadex, Civil Engineering Abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.955-958
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: LED response model, phosphor white LED, pre-equalization, visible light communication
  • Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

With the growing interest in visible light communication (VLC), it is desired to transmit data at very high rates despite the LED's bandwidth becoming a bottleneck. The bandwidth of a white LED usually ranges between hundreds of kHz and a couple of MHz, limiting transmission rates dramatically in a VLC system. Successful design of an efficient equalizer for VLC systems heavily depends on the realistic modeling of LED's frequency response. In this letter, we first propose a new LED response model taking the parasitic effects appearing at higher frequencies into account. The proposed model provides better match with measurements of commercially available LEDs over a wide frequency range as compared to the existing models in the literature. Then, we design a digital equalizer in line with the proposed model and implement it as an offline digital system in Matlab. The designed equalizer yields an overall flat system response over a wide frequency range. As a demonstration, we present the measured eye diagrams and bit error rate performance results of the equalized VLC system with on-off keying modulation and demonstrate improvements in data rate in comparison to the LED bandwidth.